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If you scroll down on the original post, there's another techemail from Palm CEO Ed Colligan to Steve Jobs [0] in which he says: "Threatening Palm with a patent lawsuit in response to a decision by one employee to leave Apple is just out of line."

So, don't know what Jobs could have done with Google specifically, but safe to assume that it would be something else equally out of line.

[0]: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1422603572814962692

At the time, Google was the default search engine in Safari, was it not?

“Poaching out of spite” is exactly what he’s threatening. And note: “stupidly expensive” for you and me is “stupidly cheap” for companies like Apple and Google.

Would have been funny if he gave the names of employees he wanted to depart instead.

>... it’d just be a stupidly expensive affair

And worth it in war, depending on the objective.

It's trivial for a big corporation to kick off a trivial lawsuit to bury you in legal fees