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Subject: Re: Apple suing people, protection of ideas
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 00:51:40 EDT
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In article <583@bonnie.UUCP> wjh@bonnie.UUCP (Bill Hery) writes:
>I believe the basis of the current Apple suit is that Jobs was planning
>the new venture and recruiting Apple employees while he was still
>an Apple employee, in fact still the Chairman of the Board at Apple.

Yes, I'm sure that Jobs was planning a new venture once he got cut out of
Apple (in fact, if not quite yet in words).  For quite some time Jobs was
Chariman in name only, w/out any real powers.  Doubtless he wasn't really
happy in that capacity, and started thinking about a new venture.  He offered
to resign, then told some of his personal friends at Apple about his venture
and asked them if they were interested, then tried a second time to resign.

And Apple is sueing him because, as "chariman", he attempted to "steal away
employees for a personal venture, in the corporate posistion he was in".
I find this act by Apple pretty tactless and infantile.

Peter Korn
korn%ucbcory@Berkeley.ARPA

P.S.  In no way do I support Job's actions re: the Macintosh project; however
      that doesn't give Apple liscence to act in their current vengeful way.