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Microsoft, Google, Lee Settle Hiring Dispute

Posted by Zonk on from the everyone-play-nice-now dept.

linumax wrote to mention that Google, Microsoft, and Kai-Fu Lee have reached an agreement, after months of negotiation. From the article: "In a brief statement released late Thursday, Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said the parties had entered into a private agreement that resolved all issues to their mutual satisfaction. He also declined to give any details on the agreement, saying the terms were confidential and that all parties had agreed to make no other statements to the media regarding it. However, he did say that Microsoft was 'pleased with the terms of our settlement with Google and Dr. Lee.'" We originally reported on this back in July.

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  1. Microsoft and google by Blade80 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it said "microsoft and google settle dispute with kung fu"

    1. Re:Microsoft and google by mattwarden · · Score: 2, Funny

      Close. The actually settled it with Wing Fu, the ancient art of chair-throwing.

  2. Opera! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google agreed to hand over Opera to their new owner!

  3. In other news by alfrin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chairs around the Microsoft office were deeply relieved with the recent settlement between Microsoft and Google.

  4. I know what happened... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lee went to Microsoft where Balmer cut off all his hair and killed him, leaving his corpse lying on a big rock in the Redmond campus. The rock later split with a deafening kaboom, and Lee reappeared, unharmed, at Google.

    Yeah, weird, huh? That's life in the dot-com era, though. I've seen stranger things happen.

  5. Did Somebody say Lee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee,
    Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee Lee,
    We're talkin' fuckin' Lee.
    I had a friend named Lee,
    He cast a spell a spell on me.
    If me and Lee and KG could be three,
    Flyin' free Tenaciously,
    Skinny-dippin' in a sea of Lee,
    I'd propose on bended knee
    To Lee Lee Lee, Lee Lee Lee,
    Lee Lee,
    Lee Lee Lee, Lee Lee Lee,
    Lee Lee,
    Le-Lut-Le-Le-Le-Lee Lee Lee,
    Le-Lut-Le-Le-Le-Lee Lee,
    If me, and Lee, and KG, (that's me)
    Could be three, (could be three)
    Plant a tree, (plant a tree)
    Just for Lee, (just for Lee)
    Just for Lee, (Lee)
    Just for Lee!
    Lee, Lee, Lee: ["Psycho" Knife Song style, 16X]
    Leeee, Leeee, Leeee:
    LEE!

    -Lee, Tenacious D

  6. Let me explain it: by Stan+Vassilev · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google has agreed to pretend to agree with Microsoft, and Microsoft has agreed to believe that.

    We all now Kai-Fu is gonna do what he was hired for, never mind if his official position is to brew coffee in the Google Restaurant.