The Minutes of Brad Gerstner on android https://minutesof.com/brad-gerstner/on/android/ Everything Brad Gerstner has said on android: 2 verbatim quotes from July 2024, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:09:03 +0000 Gerstner says smart Silicon Valley companies use open source as defensive weapon, starting with Google's Andro https://minutesof.com/q/c80ac08c-cb52-41c3-9973-638f839c1dd1/ https://minutesof.com/q/c80ac08c-cb52-41c3-9973-638f839c1dd1/ “Something happened over the past, I'd say fifteen years, where some of the smartest companies in Silicon Valley have developed a new strategic play, where they use open source as a defensive weapon rather than as an offensive weapon. That's my terminology. Of the first to do it was Google with Android” — BG2 Pod Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000 android Gerstner identifies a fifteen-year trend of top tech companies using open source strategically as a defensive https://minutesof.com/q/4e696c7f-d232-4deb-a5ab-b014743bbec6/ https://minutesof.com/q/4e696c7f-d232-4deb-a5ab-b014743bbec6/ “And Google convinced the rest of the world, all the handset manufacturers, the carriers to support this model by telling them it was going be open.” — BG2 Pod Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000 android