NYT: Steve Jobs was a criminal. Vanity Fair: Samsung is a liar.A pair of heavily re-tweeted pieces dance to the edge of libel.
<p>FORTUNE -- Ruthless -- perhaps criminal -- business tactics are the rule not the exception at Apple (AAPL) and Samsung.</p>
<p>That's the take-home message from a pair of stories being widely re-tweeted this weekend, one from the
New York Times, the other from
Vanity Fair.</p>
<p>According to James Stewart, who won a Pulitzer in 1988 for a series about insider trading, Steve Jobs ought to have
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NYT: Steve Jobs was a criminal. Vanity Fair: Samsung is a liar.
