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To: Doren who wrote (15714)	1/22/2012 8:44:58 AM
From: zax	Respond to of 32692

>> Apple is alleged to have colluded... but your outrage is ONLY on Apple Its pretty clear from the court documents that Steve Jobs personally orchestrated this operation and ran the show with direct personal involvement in the illegal "gentlemen's" agreements, the result of had direct and consequential effect upon the careers, wages and mobility (actually lack thereof) of workers at Apple. The comments and rationalizations in your note are really quite outrageous and insulting. Apple's behaviour was reprehensible, immoral and clearly illegal. I suspect that some pretty plum class action lawsuits are going to follow this current one.

To: Doren who wrote (15714)	1/22/2012 3:11:02 PM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 32692

I'm with you, Doren. I won't excuse Jobs for this, because I don't think it was right if in fact the agreement barred the participants from any hiring of the others' employees, rather than just being an agreement for them not to actively solicit each other's employees. The former would be far worse than the latter, though both would be wrong. The fact that a complaint has been filed doesn't constitute proof of every claim in the complaint. So I'm going to reserve judgement about exactly how bad this was. And of course, this was an agreement between CEOs of roughly equal power, in those days. Apple in 2005 wasn't the behemoth it is today. It wasn't dictating terms to the likes of Intel, Google, or Adobe. So to speak only of the wrong committed by Apple is to excuse those other CEOs for the same behavior.