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Transfer of liability? There are candid emails between Steve jobs and Schmidt about the topic. Edit: They made a minor settlement and there was a lawsuit that
by jammygit 8y ago
Transfer of liability? There are candid emails between Steve jobs and Schmidt about the topic.
Edit: They made a minor settlement and there was a lawsuit that got a tiny amount of press.
http://time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chilling-response-after-getting-a-google-employee-fired/ http://time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chilling-response-after-get...
Edit 2: there was not even a slap on the wrist legally speaking:
"The proposed settlement, which if accepted by the court will be in effect for five years, prohibits the companies from engaging in anticompetitive no solicitation agreements. "
- deogeo 8y ago...am I understanding it correctly that their 'punishment' was having to promise not to break the law again? But only for five years??
- FireBeyond 8y agoYes. They'll get a "harder" slap if they do it in the next five years (if caught), but after that are free to do so with baseline "penalties" (again, if caught).
- thatoneuser 8y ago"Don't be evil"
- animal531 8y agoYeah that's ridiculous. A real penalty would be for example to not allow them to appoint new employees for 5 years.
- PunksATawnyFill 8y agoJobs was a liar. He also said no engineers were laid off from Pro Apps, when in fact half of Pro Apps engineers were fired at the end of the 2000s.