Google Gets All Neener-Neener-Neener On Microsoft

Google has an entry in their blog discussing the fact that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can get working for them despite some legal action from Microsoft. I'm surprised about two things: first that Google's 'blog is staying so busy, and second that they're willing to publicly discuss employee litigation in it. Not something you usually see big corporations falling all over themselves to discuss. I suspect their willingess to talk about employee issues does have some limits though (>cough cough MARK JEN cough<) Anyway, Google's 'blog entry is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/judge-clears-way-for-dr-lee.html .

Needless to say Microsoft has their own viewpoint on this which you can catch at The Washington Post. "Tom Burt, Microsoft's deputy general counsel for litigation, said the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant had succeeded in severely restricting Lee's activities and use of corporate secrets. He said Google was paying Lee $10 million to head its China operations even though he could actually do very little of substance in light of the ruling."

I wonder if they'll really keep hashing this out publicly? Weird.

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