The Weather Channel listed Sprint as their "affiliate", and since many
of us did not know that it meant differently in legal jargon, I
assumed it meant as "a company which one has a business interest". But
of course I believe you are correct.

In any case, however, I think you were a little bit inaccurate when
you said that "the judges at Sprint have no relationship with any of
the contest entrants". The judges at Sprint are employees of Sprint;
Sprint is an "affiliate" of  The Weather Channel; and The Weather
Channel was a contest entrant.

I assume though that the judges from Sprint recused themselves from
the app submitted by The Weather Channel.

Thanks


On May 16, 2:51 pm, "David M. (Android Advocate)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> In this context, 'affiliated companies' legally indicates that
> companies have an interlocking control structure. Sprint and The
> Weather Channel are not affiliated companies. In addition, the judges
> at Sprint have no relationship with any of the contest entrants.
>
> Judges specifically had the option to recuse themselves from judging
> particular apps which had potential conflict with areas or products
> that they were associated with, and many judges did recuse themselves
> from specific apps, necessitating that these apps be further scored by
> backup judges.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On May 16, 2:13 pm, ajd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Can anybody please clarify/confirm?
> > Doesn't this disqualifis The Weather Channel from joining?
>
> > On May 16, 1:14 pm, "Shane Isbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Who's auditing the results anyway?
>
> > > Shane
>
> > > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Shane Isbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > >  On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:50 PM, ajd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > >> Isn't the challenge rule denies OHA affiliated companies to join?
>
> > > >> "Employees of Google, members of the Open Handset Alliance, or
> > > >> affiliated companies are ineligible to participate."
>
> > > > Well that's in black and white. Sounds like a rule violation.
>
> > > > Shane
>
> > > >> On May 16, 12:40 pm, Braden Napier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >> > Both huge companies.
>
> > > >> > Weather Channel's software development would have ntothing to do with
> > > >> > their deployment of information to a wireless carrier.
>
> > > >> > On May 16, 2:36 pm, ajd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > >> > > Here is the list of judges (some are from Sprint):
>
> > > >> > >http://code.google.com/android/adc_judges.html
>
> > > >> > > And here is a link that says "The Weather Channel" is a partner of
> > > >> > > Sprint PCS:
>
> > > >> > >http://www.weather.com/aboutus/affiliates/internet.html
>
> > > >> > > Any significance?- Hide quoted text -
>
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