Comments on: IBM executive jumps ship for Apple http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17468 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eric http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17468/comment-page-1#comment-871895 Eric Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:47:38 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17468#comment-871895 This happened with Nolan Bushnell-- he couldn't join a competitor to Atari from 1976 (when he sold out to Time-Warner) until 1983 (when he joined Videa aka Sente just a bit too early and almost got sued for it). I think one year is better than seven. Now, if Atari instead had that policy on ALL important employees, it would have been interesting to see what happened instead when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak left. This happened with Nolan Bushnell– he couldn’t join a competitor to Atari from 1976 (when he sold out to Time-Warner) until 1983 (when he joined Videa aka Sente just a bit too early and almost got sued for it).

I think one year is better than seven.

Now, if Atari instead had that policy on ALL important employees, it would have been interesting to see what happened instead when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak left.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17468/comment-page-1#comment-871636 Reader's Write Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:50:55 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17468#comment-871636 And ADQ elected MPs jumped ship to Liberal Party of Quebec. And ADQ elected MPs jumped ship to Liberal Party of Quebec.

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