Google Sued for $1B Over Outlook Migration Tool

A two-count lawsuit filed by Chicago company LimitNone alleges that Google misappropriated trade secrets and violated Illinois' consumer fraud laws when it developed "Google Email Uploader" which competes with LimitNone's "gMove" application. "Google claims its core philosophy is 'Don't be evil' but, simply put, they invited us to work with them, to trust them — and then stole our technology,'" said Ray Glassman, CEO of LimitNone, in a prepared statement. The lawsuit was filed by Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, the same commercial litigation group which challenged Google over the company's online advertising system.

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My philosophy

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be first post.

Re:My philosophy

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Anonymous Coward,

The author of popular first-posting tool Bone-O-Rama, cyborg_monkey, has filed a lawsuit against you individually and against any entity under which you conduct business alleging infringement of Bone-O-Rama technology.

cyborg_monkey holds that you invited him into a technology sharing agreement the terms of which prevent you from independently using, allowing others to use, or cause to be use, any first posting technology, whether derived from or distinct from, that same technology as used by Bone-O-Rama. Further allegation include but are not limited to: Repeated inappropriate remarks by you about Bone-O-Rama placed on popular blogs, your garbling of the Bone-O-Rama trademark "First Post!" (such garblings include "fr0st ps0t!" and the like), and also cyborg_monkey has a general dissatisfaction with the way you conduct yourself just in general, and we think you registered the Slashdot account cydorg_money, which is obviously trademark dillution.

You'd be wise to post a retraction while there is still time, and apologize for your affronts to decency.

Re:My philosophy

[Anonymous Coward]

While this is funny, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some moron one day took offense to an Anonymous Coward posting and filed suit against the individual known as "Anonymous Coward"..

We will know we have reached critical mass in morons at that point.

Re:My philosophy

[Anonymous Coward]

why are you suing yourself and me?

Whats their contact information?

[tgd]

Perhaps I should sue them for selling a product that did what the Perl script I wrote to import ten years' worth of archives into GMail did several months before the beta was even open to anyone but friends and family of people at Google.

You know, because its really a non-obvious idea.

Re:You've got a little evil there on your mouth...

[The Warlock]

Wait, you think Slashdot editors actually read the article? I'd say "you must be new here", but then somebody with a 4-digit UID would be legally obligated to come over and bitch-slap me.

Re:You've got a little evil there on your mouth...

[tgd]

*slap*

You're welcome.

Re:trade secrets? for moving email?

[unformed]

I'm not a doctor but I can't see why people can't just grow back their arms when an alligator eats it off.

I mean lizards grow back tails all the time.

I don't see what the big problem is.

Re:The Amazing Karnak

[H0p313ss]

Some of us will get witty replies in, we'll probably get a couple "In Soviet America" jokes, a few flamers talking about privacy invasions and at least one sad, months-late attempt at a Rick Roll.

I for one welcome our new prediction toting cynical overlords.

Re:Get Rich

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparently they were willing to boost this company's product until they realized how much money could be made from it, at which point they decided to build their own clone and give it away for free Ah yes, Google made a killing off this deal! The board room discussion must have gone something like this:

Product Analyst: "Look at this gMove product, they are selling hundreds, maybe even thousands of copies. They're making a lot of money! We should do something about it."

VP of Development: "Okay, let's develop our own."

Accountant: "How much should we charge for it?"

Product Analyst: "Well, the makers of gMove believe that they could sell 50 million copies for $29.99- that's like 1 billion dollars!" (said while holding pinky finger to mouth, of course)

VP of Sales: "We could probably sell even more copies if it was cheaper"

Accountant steps out to go to the bathroom.

Product Analyst: "Imagine how many copies we could sell if it was free!!"

VP of Development: "Okay, let's do it! That'll really show 'em!"

Re:The Amazing Karnak

[MyLongNickName]

Two words, only smucks sue for billions when their product is worth thousands.

Two questions:
What were the "two words".
And is a "smuck" one who makes Smuckers jelly?

Re:Get Rich

[Ioldanach]

And, more importantly, 2) at $19 a pop for 50 million premier customers, that works out, in my basic math, to $100 million.

Fortunately for the plaintiff, actual math causes that to work out to $950 million.

Re:The Amazing Karnak

[girasquid]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

Re:trade secrets? for moving email?

[zifn4b]

I'm sure it was a piece of cake to write. Microsoft's proprietary API's and file formats are all easy to use and designed for maximum interoperability with third-party software.

Re:You've got a little evil there on your mouth...

[Proteus]

Damn, you beat me to it. And I really needed to slap someone today. ;-)

Re:You've got a little evil there on your mouth...

[mikl]

*Slap*

(Even lower UID than the first slap you got. Yeah.)

Re:Get Rich

[greenguy]

Yes, you are correct
Better yet, your comment was
Almost a haiku