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Showing Original Post only (View all)Steve Jobs colluded with other tech co's to keep US employee compensation low [View all]
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/us-apple-lawsuit-idUSTRE80Q27420120127
Steve Jobs told Google to stop poaching workers
By Dan Levine
Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:40pm EST
(Reuters) - Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing.
The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other technology companies. The proposed class action, brought by five software engineers, accuses the companies of conspiring to keep employee compensation low by eliminating competition for skilled labor.
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According to an unredacted court filing made public in the civil litigation on Friday, the now-deceased Jobs emailed Schmidt in March 2007 about an attempt by a Google employee to recruit an Apple engineer. Schmidt was also an Apple board member at the time.
"I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this," Jobs wrote.
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brentspeak
Jan 2012
OP
Let's step out of the noise of this thread for a while and talk about your daughter's needs
emulatorloo
Jan 2012
#28
still people will line up around the block, waiting all nite for the store to open so
leftyohiolib
Jan 2012
#9
AWESOME variation on the "everybody's doin' it!" excuse! Now, NOBODY wants to work!
Romulox
Jan 2012
#62