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Google CEO to FTC: You Can Have My Apple Board Seat When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands …

John Paczkowski in News on May 7, 2009 at 4:42 pm PT

The Federal Trade Commission may worry about the ties between the Google and Apple boards, but Google CEO Eric Schmidt clearly doesn’t share its concern. Asked during a press luncheon if he would resign from Apple’s board in the face of FTC scrutiny, Schmidt bristled–“Why would you ask that question?”–and then said simply, “It hasn’t crossed my mind.”