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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by sashank_1509 on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:10PM (#48867012)
Hot take, but Apple has done the same and worse to many other companies when they could. Of course Apple can sue and they will probably settle some amount with OpenAI, but acting like this is not commonplace in today’s business environment, and OpenAI is uniquely worse at stealing corporate secrets is laughable. Especially considering Apple’s famous history!
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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:20PM (#48867076)
> Apple has done the same and worse to many other companies when they could

The closest involved Apple selling Xerox pre-IPO shares [1]. And there are zero allegations any PARC employees who moved to Apple with confidential information the this has gone down.

> acting like this is not commonplace in today’s business environment

It's not. It's why it gets litigated and criminally charged. I won't disagree that there is a section of Americans who think it's commonplace. But that's because they're either personally doing the crimes or surrounded by criminals.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-21/larry-tesl...

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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by sashank_1509 on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:49PM (#48867318)
Hmmm it does seem like this seems much worse than what I thought of Apple doing (like stealing the idea for a mouse and GUI from Xerox), the best I could find is Qualcomm claiming Apple stole its modem code and gave it to Intel. That was settled before trial.

This however does actually seem far worse, reminds me more of Waymo vs Uber, people can go to jail.

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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:53PM (#48867358)
Apple’s “stealing” has been dramatized because Jobs gave it a good line. It’s really not comparable to what these guys are doing.
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Re:Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade... by losthubble on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:34PM (#48868092)
Didn't apple get banned from selling apple watch because they pretended to want to buy IP and basically just poached and gutted the company instead?
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