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    Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs threatened Palm CEO Edward Colligan with patent litigation if he did not agree to stop poaching Apple employees, according to a court filing that was made public on Tuesday.

    Confidential emails between the pair, along with documents from Adobe and Google, have surfaced in a civil lawsuit that claims a number of major companies in Silicon Valley violated antitrust rules by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees. Five employees are now fighting for class action status and damages for lost wages as a result of the “no-hire” agreements.

    These agreements were first reported on back in 2009 during an investigation into the matter by the U.S. Department of Justice, which found that a number of Silicon Valley’s top firms kept do-not-call lists to avoid competitive recruiting. Some of the firms included in the scheme were Apple, Adobe, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and Walt Disney.

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    • they've all been poaching off each other for so long it's ridiculousmonospaced
    • haha - steve knew how to write a fucking email...identity
    • Steve Job,
      Chief Bully      utopian
    • Whomever thinks being a CEO requires being a pussy in the face of competition will never be a CEOmonospaced
    • Helmet breath Jobs!utopian
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