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Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job

vortex2.71 (802986) writes Amazon is suing a former employee of its cloud services division after he took a similar position at Google. The interesting aspect of the lawsuit is that Google is choosing to vigorously defend the lawsuit, so this is a case of Goliath vs. Goliath rather than David vs. Goliath. According to court documents, Zoltan Szabadi left a business-development position at Amazon Web Services for Google's Cloud Platform division. Szabadi's lawyer responded by contending that, while Szabadi did sign a non-compete agreement, he would only use his general knowledge and skills at Google and would not use any confidential information he had access to at Amazon. He also believes Amazon's confidentiality and non-compete agreements are an unlawful business practice.

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  1. Re:Non-compete agreements are BS. by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fraud is a serious crime.

    I thought it was a legitimate business model.

    --
    "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
  2. Re:Counter-suit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's great, but you didn't rebut his argument that California, having a liberal slant, is just like North Korea. That means he's right and you're wrong!!!!! even if you have things he doesn't care about, um, facts or whatever you OBamabots call em, Libtard!

  3. Re:Do they own him? by mu51c10rd · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you know that Clause 18 section B allows slashdot to demand that you donate any or all compatible organs if they need a transplant for any of the executive?

    Congratulations on doing a better job than Slashdot at getting people to read their terms and conditions...

  4. Re:Non-compete agreements are BS. by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

    It helps to have the digits of pi put to music, as in Camptown Races. "3 point 1 4 1 5 9, doo dah, doo dah".