There's a difference between hiring talent because you want talent, and hiring talent to undermine a smaller competitor.

It's an analogous to dumping.

That is evil.

Monopolies and cartels are against the law, but not enforced.

It is a sad reality of the modern economy, and one of the biggest indicators of who actually runs America.

At least in this case workers made money.

If borland was losing money, why didn't the execs negotiate a merger if they had so much desirable talent?

Hmmmmm, I bet the execs couldn't negotiate a big enough reward for themselves in an acquisition. The limo pickup at lunch strikes me as a big middle finger to Borland's management.

Of all of Borland's products that I liked, did I like them because of the software devs or the management? I guess what I want is the borland devs back.

I miss Turbo Pascal, DOS or Windows.

Once the store drives local businesses out, prices go up.

That's why this kind of behavior is unlawful.