LimitNone sues Google for almost $1 billion
p2pnet news | Products:- “Welcome to the LimitNone discussion group!” – says LimitNone on Google Groups.
“Our goal is to provide the best possible services, tools and training for users of Google Apps. To do this, we need your help.
“Please participate as much as possible. Your ideas, suggestions, criticisms and questions are always welcome.”
Now LimitNone wants Google to pay it close to $1 billion in damages, accusing Google of reneging on a partnership and “misappropriating its trade secrets” for Google Apps, says CNET News.
“Specifically, the suit concerns LimitNone software called gMove that is designed to let people move email, contacts and calendar information stored in Microsoft Outlook to Google’s online service,” says the story, going in:
The lawsuit states Google initially helped LimitNone develop, promote and sell the product, assuring LimitNone that it wouldn’t offer a competing product, but then reversed course by giving away its own tool, Google Email Uploader, to premier-level Google Apps customers.”
With gMove priced at $19 per copy and Google’s prediction that there were potentially 50 million users, “Google deprived LimitNone of a $950m opportunity by offering Google’s competitive product for free as a part of its ‘premier’ Google Apps package,” the lawsuit says.
LimitNone had shared confidential technical and sales-forecast details with Google, the lawsuit said.
Meanwhile, “I see gmove is not for sale anymore. I understand this could be because google keep changing the tech details and its hard to play catch-up,” posts kevtiller on Google Groups, going on, “Will there be a new version ?”
And, “I would love any news on this,” says David Boyle. “I use it a lot suddenly its dead!!”
Then, “ouch,” says kevtiller,” read this,” pointing to a blogoscope post quoting a Reuters story on the lawsuit.
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CNET News – Suit accuses Google of trade secret theft, June 24, 2008
blogoscope – Google Sued Over Email Tool, June 24, 2008
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