Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Jan 2013 11:37 UTC
Back in 2010, Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, and a few others settled with the US Department of Justice regarding their anti-poaching agreements concerning employees. While the CEOs did a good job of escaping possible prosecution, the affected employees filed a class action lawsuit about this, and judge Lucy Koh has just unsealed a number of emails concerning this case. They paint a pretty grim picture of Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt engaging in mafia practices, threatening smaller companies with patent litigation if they didn't agree to the no-poaching agreements, or demanding to handle matters verbally as to not leave a paper trail.
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You're missing part of the sentence there.
"They paint a pretty grim picture of Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt engaging in mafia practices, threatening smaller companies with patent litigation if they didn't agree to the no-poaching agreements, or demanding to handle matters verbally as to not leave a paper trail."
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Don't mix up everything in the same sentence, you know full well this is on a completely different "evil" scale.
What about "Steve and Thom are criminals, accused of murder and rape, and suspected on lying to an Attorney" ? This is just horrible to mix up so different level of criminal activities, one is beyond any scale, and the other is almost minor. Yet, the sentence is built to make them look they are both the same.
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You obviously decided to concentrate on the unimportant part of the message. This is a classic way to produce noise, in a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the main message.
One is taken "hand in the bag" bullying a smaller competitor with written threat beyond acceptable level. The other is mailing to a collaborator that he prefers not to write about non-recruitment agreement (and by saying so, he leaves a trace).
In what way is this "comparable" to the point of deliberately mixing the two to make them look like equal ?
Oh i see, since we don't know what the second did, it must have been as terrible as one can imagine certainly ! No proof, so no limit to imagination.
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"Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt engaging in mafia practices threatening smaller companies with patent litigation"
This is completely incorrect : only Steve jobs engaged in threatening smaller companies, such as Palm, with Patent wars.
What's this ? Another attempt at pretending to be "fair & unbiaised" by artifically darkening one side ?
There is no evidence that Eric Schmidt did the same, and certainly this was not in the culture of Google back in the time, since they came to buy Motorola patent folio due to the fact they did not developed their own and underestimated the value of such a "thermonuclear weapon".