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>Adding a bit more context to these emails, a 2008 article from TechCrunch details that Hullot and other members from Apple's Paris engineering team were actually given pink slips.

So he was not okay with Google hiring former engineers Apple let go. Unbelieveable.

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Unbelieveable.

At the level of principle, I agree. At the level of practicalities, knowing a little about Steve Jobs, this is believable, unfortunately.

Hopefully history remembers him as the dick he really was.

I doubt it since many historical figures that be look up to were bigger dicks.

Yes, but as long being a dick is concerned Jobs was class apart.

I dunno, Gandhi is the most obvious and he was WAY worse than Jobs.

Ask the Dakota about Lincoln and see what they think.

I guess that when Jobs told them, "you'll never work in this business again" he was serious.

It might come as a total shock to you, but "this business" doesn't end with Apple and Google.

You're supposed to laugh.

Neither do the anti-poaching agreements. Zing!

Thanks, I'll be here all night!

I'm amazed by how much of this agreement seems to have been driven by him. I know these investigations take a really long time to process, but part of me wonders if his passing on had anything to do with this being discovered.

Nothing really made me not like Jobs previous to this but I feel the same way, this was his doing and it changed my opinion of him. However I never thought he treated Woz right and that should have been a tell on how he saw engineers no longer working with him.

High talent fields do seem to get pretty sport/league like where talent are locked in by agreements/contracts, only here the companies got the sole benefit. Maybe we need a Programmers League with free agency.

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