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Re:Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he t... by skinnymuch on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:50PM (#23462468)
They aren’t suing someone random. Google would surely back the legal fees for the person if Google themselves aren’t somehow sued. What would be the point of this then?
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Re:Amazon sues former AWS marketing VP Brian Hall after he t... by em-bee on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:42AM (#23464008)
of course not random, but the person switching jobs.

clearly (from amazon's perspective) you can't switch to google without revealing secrets and violating your NDA, therefore we sue you.

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