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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Misnomer

[BenBoy]

From the wikipedia article:

Only wild animals can be poached. Stealing or killing domestic animals is considered to be theft ("cattle rustling"), not poaching.

They're nerd rustling. Hence the (now trademarked) "Yahoo!"

Re:It's GOOD!

[Hognoxious]

I read the body of the message first, and as soon as I saw the huge leap between the first paragraph & the second I knew it was you.