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Re:Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Pr... by jdoliner on Friday June 17, 2016 @06:16PM (#11925899)
> They can say they'd have Google's business if Google hadn't signed NDAs, learned their trade secrets, then decided to do it in-house.

This seems like the issue to me, they can say they'd have Google's Loon business. But that's 0 actual business. I don't see how they can possibly claim they'd have Google's advertising business since it's obviously completely unrelated to what they do.

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Re:Google accused of stealing balloon network tech behind Pr... by willvarfar on Saturday June 18, 2016 @05:38AM (#11927751)
The money Google invested in loon can be argued to be less than Google would have paid to buy in the tech. This puts a nice lower bound number on the lost opportunity.
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