Adobe on Apple recruiting

Shantanu Narayen (now the CEO of Adobe) wrote an email to his team, saying: “I wanted to let you all know that Bruce, Theresa and I discussed the issue of recruiting with Apple. We don't want the gloves off - it doesn't do either company any good and we don't want Steve personally recruiting our key talent. We've agreed we will not solicit any talent.”

Apple to Palm

Ed Colligan, the CEO of mobile manufacturing company Palm, received an email from Steve Jobs, asking him to stop recruiting Apple engineers. His email is below:

Ed,

This is not satisfactory to Apple.

It is not just a matter of our employees deciding they want to join Palm. They are being actively recruited using knowledge supplied by Jon Rubenstein and Fred Anderson, with Jon personally participating in the recruiting process. We must do whatever we can to stop this. I'm sure you realize the asymmetry in the financial resources of our respective companies when you say: "We will both just end up paying a lot of lawyers a lot of money."

Steve

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