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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by dominotw on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:13PM (#19668019)
> Top executives of leading tech companies secretly agreed among themselves not to hire each other’s employees

How do they enforce this agreement?

Reminds me of Phoebous cartel agreeing to produce lightbulbs below certain lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

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Re:How Apple, Google, and other tech companies conspired aga... by lern_too_spel on Monday April 15, 2019 @04:41PM (#19668723)
Enforced with threats from Steve Jobs himself:

https://www.engadget.com/2014/03/24/emails-reveal-that-steve...

https://www.cultofmac.com/316682/how-steve-jobs-reacted-when...

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