Jobs Threatened to Sue If Palm Didn’t Agree to Recruiting Limits
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Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs suggested the computer maker collude with Palm Inc. to prevent the companies from hiring employees away from each other, according to a court filing in an antitrust lawsuit.
In 2007 Jobs called Edward T. Colligan, who was then Palm’s chief executive officer, to propose the arrangement and during that call suggested that if Palm didn’t agree, Apple might file patent-infringement claims against it, according to the filing yesterday in federal court in San Jose, California.