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What you call a "nice gesture," most everybody else calls collusion [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion

If Google decided to buy all their CPUs from Intel, rather than AMD, is that Collusion?

Who exactly is being defrauded in this situation?

Technically, it probably would be, which highlights the inanity of these laws.

Restricting worker's ability to find new jobs is not a nice gesture. It's opressive, and also may be illegal.

"To be clear, this unwritten agreement was that Google would not go after Apple employees, and vice versa. However, employees of both companies were free to apply to the other company on their own, we’re told."

While this doesn't affect employees' ability to find jobs as much, it would affect their pay (as there would be no bidding wars over employees wanted by both companies).

Could you explain how this is a nice gesture?

Sarcasm, sir.