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A comment on Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan.

Re:Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan by jtchang on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @03:40AM (#5102141)
This is one of the cases where it is hard as hell to infer what tone Steve Jobs wanted to reply back with.

It sure sounds assholish but it is very well possible he knew that Palm was actively poaching and blatantly disregarding existing NDAs. Palm's CEO writes a fairly well measured e-mail but it is still a political dance.

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Re:Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan by flyinRyan on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:57AM (#5102477)
>very well possible he knew that Palm was actively poaching

Which isn't illegal, immoral or wrong in any way.

>and blatantly disregarding existing NDAs

Do you mean NDA here or non-compete clauses? NDAs should certainly be adhered to but non-compete clauses should be illegal and certainly never enforced.

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Re:Steve Jobs' exchange with Palm CEO Ed Colligan by lollancf37 on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @04:07AM (#5102201)
The tone doesn't matter. Context is of course of importance but let's face it, even if with a good lawyer you can defend almost anything. Steve Job's attitude is clearly set on death and destruction to his enemies lol.
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