Apple and Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit

beaverdownunder writes "Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel have been accused of maintaining an agreement not to poach each other's staff, thus restricting increases in salary and restricting career development. California District Judge Lucy Koh has found that the plaintiffs have adequately demonstrated antitrust injury. Sparked by a request from the late Steve Jobs, from 2005 to 2007 the defendants had a 'no cold-call' policy of staff recruitment amongst themselves. Jobs is also alleged to have threatened Palm with litigation for not entering into a 'no cold-call' agreement with Apple." Besides the companies named above, Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm are also involved.

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Re:a nice whopper of an evil by Google

[Surt]

But I won't forgive people for thinking I meant "it doesn't get much more evil" when I wrote "it doesn't get much more clearly evil".

Re:a nice whopper of an evil by Google

[Surt]

It's not my fault you can't read. Words have meanings. I don't use words as carelessly as most, apparently.

Re:a nice whopper of an evil by Google

[Surt]

Believe what you'd like. It takes all of 10 well rated posts to max your karma. Karma fishing just isn't an activity that should keep most people interested for more than a month or so.