Microsoft v Google settlement?
p2p news / p2pnet:- “The case has illuminated the bitterness between Microsoft and Google, which is emerging as a formidable competitor to the Redmond, Wash.-based company. Testimony suggested that Microsoft executives responded with profanities when they learned of employees defecting to Google.”
That’s from an Associated Press story centering on the defection of former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee to Google, and it adequately sums up the lie of the land.
But hours after Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez ruled that Lee can start doing limited work for Google, “a top Microsoft lawyer said the software giant was prepared to settle its lawsuit if the restrictions on Kai-Fu Lee remain in effect until next summer,” says AP.
Pending a trial set for January, Lee still can’t be involved with products, services or projects he worked on at Microsoft, including computer search technology, although recruiting and staffing a Google center in China wouldn’t violate that agreement.
“Google wants Lee to help pick a site for the China facility and begin using his connections there to recruit students and software engineers,” says AP.
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Associated Press – Microsoft Offers to Settle Suit Vs. Google, September 14, 2005
