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Good riddance. Among other problems, Schmidt was one of the organizers of the "no poaching" scandals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_ille

Good riddance. Among other problems, Schmidt was one of the organizers of the "no poaching" scandals: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal_non-recruiting_agreements https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal... He also wrote this, to make it clear that he knew he was doing wrong: [let's share this with competitors] "verbally, since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?"

otakucode 8y ago
"No poaching" is underselling it. It was wage fixing plain and simple. He was also the one who, with a straight face, said "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to fear" in response to widespread surveillance. Of course, he would not then open himself up to any scrutiny.
- aceofspades19 8y ago
  That's not what he said at all, even remotely. He said "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" and that was largely in the context that no matter what Google does, the American government can come in and take any information they want that is stored on Google's servers with very little recourse.
- sjg007 8y ago
  I am surprised that the Feds didn't go after them or take an interest.
  - otakucode 8y ago
    They did. And they were found guilty. This was widely reported years ago.
bouncing 8y ago
That wasn't just him, it was the whole valley.
- blitmap 8y ago
  Okay - good riddance to him and the rest of the valley :-)
- jklm 8y ago
  It wasn't the whole valley, it was specifically Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel. Absent were Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft.
sneak 8y ago
To me, the big story is not so much that he attempted it, or that he tried to cover it up, or that he got busted doing something totally illegal, or that he was never prosecuted criminally, or that the judge threw out the initial settlement for being hilariously low, or that the revised settlement was still a small fraction of the billions estimated that the conspirators cheated away from staff... It is that all of this happened, was well documented and publicly reported... and Google’s board did absolutely nothing. He continued in high ranking positions there for another ~decade. They sent a clear message that they find this sort of criminal conspiracy to be A-OK, nothing worth firing the guy over, or indeed reprimanding him in any meaningful way whatsoever. To me that’s a bigger story than the Andy Rubin thing.
- linuxftw 8y ago
  Obviously it was A-OK. Nothing bad seemed to happen, stocks are up from that time period. If you can start a company that breaks the law, the only punishment is a $0 fine, your competitors don't do it, and doing it brings you large financial rewards, many would do it 10/10 times.

otakucode 8y ago

"No poaching" is underselling it. It was wage fixing plain and simple. He was also the one who, with a straight face, said "if you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to fear" in response to widespread surveillance. Of course, he would not then open himself up to any scrutiny.

aceofspades19 8y ago
That's not what he said at all, even remotely. He said "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" and that was largely in the context that no matter what Google does, the American government can come in and take any information they want that is stored on Google's servers with very little recourse.
sjg007 8y ago
I am surprised that the Feds didn't go after them or take an interest.
- otakucode 8y ago
  They did. And they were found guilty. This was widely reported years ago.

bouncing 8y ago

That wasn't just him, it was the whole valley.

blitmap 8y ago
Okay - good riddance to him and the rest of the valley :-)
jklm 8y ago
It wasn't the whole valley, it was specifically Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel. Absent were Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft.

sneak 8y ago

To me, the big story is not so much that he attempted it, or that he tried to cover it up, or that he got busted doing something totally illegal, or that he was never prosecuted criminally, or that the judge threw out the initial settlement for being hilariously low, or that the revised settlement was still a small fraction of the billions estimated that the conspirators cheated away from staff... It is that all of this happened, was well documented and publicly reported... and Google’s board did absolutely nothing. He continued in high ranking positions there for another ~decade. They sent a clear message that they find this sort of criminal conspiracy to be A-OK, nothing worth firing the guy over, or indeed reprimanding him in any meaningful way whatsoever. To me that’s a bigger story than the Andy Rubin thing.

linuxftw 8y ago
Obviously it was A-OK. Nothing bad seemed to happen, stocks are up from that time period. If you can start a company that breaks the law, the only punishment is a $0 fine, your competitors don't do it, and doing it brings you large financial rewards, many would do it 10/10 times.