LimitNone, a small software-development company, is seeking nearly $1bn (£508m) in damages in a lawsuit that accuses Google of reneging on a partnership with the company and misappropriating its trade secrets for the Google Apps online service. Specifically, the suit concerns LimitNone software called gMove that is designed to let people move email, contacts and calendar information stored in Microsoft Outlook to Google's online service.The lawsuit states Google initially helped LimitNone develop, promote and sell the product, assuring LimitNone that it wouldn't offer a competing product, but then reversed course by giving away its own tool, Google Email Uploader, to premier-level Google Apps customers.
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Everyone should trust the great empire of Google, who else would you want to carry your Medical records.
However, if they were stupid enough to trust them and not sign a contract, they deserve it.
However, if they were stupid enough to trust them and not sign a contract, they deserve it.
indeedy.
Works with ease.
Now they will become the new Microsoft.
As they say `if you cannot beat them, sue them`.
I suppose they could replace 'no' with 'much' but then the motto would be true and that just won't do for a company that reads it's customer's e-Mail to deliver advertisements to them.
Do you actually think adding text ads to email is evil or are you just comment trolling?
Oh, but I guess this mysterious manpower exists entirely underground where not a single word of it gets out. Seriously, the only I see saying,"Google reads mail," are people like Steve Ballmer who say it as if it'll push people away from Google's services.
I suppose they could replace 'no' with 'much' but then the motto would be true and that just won't do for a company that reads it's customer's e-Mail to deliver advertisements to them.
You think Google hires people to read my email?
Personally, I find no company to be exactly good. They're all out to get your money, and they'll stop at nothing to get it. The only companies that are good in our eyes are the ones who can deliver great affordable products and/or services.
However i don't wanna believe that a company so dedicated towards providing excellent solutions to users would do such things..
But i'm open to everything, these days money is what everyone sees nothing else...
Whether or not the accusation is true, they would absolutely not get 100% of google's userbase buying their product, far from it. Besides, if it weren't for google their product would be worthless. Sounds to me like just another greedy company trying to get what they don't deserve.
Whether or not the accusation is true, they would absolutely not get 100% of google's userbase buying their product, far from it. Besides, if it weren't for google their product would be worthless. Sounds to me like just another greedy company trying to get what they don't deserve.
Problem is, it's all the rage to portray Google as the "bad" guys, you know EVERY "Big" business is "bad" or they would have never gotten "big" according to your friendly Socialists
I like Google and all.. but it's Google's stupid fault for doing that.. they should've known better.
Such hypocrites of their own "do no evil" saying.
1 bill is a lot though, I hope this teaches them a lesson.
Then again, it could help them improve, because lots of big corporations get sued, and it makes them change their ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIllRdSzSug
And if LimitNone get their way, wouldn't that make them a monopoly?
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