Ex-Microsoft exec cleared for most Google work
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
A state judge, ruling in a case that exposed the behind-the-scenes animosity between two high-tech titans, cleared the way Tuesday for a former Microsoft Corp. executive to perform most of the tasks rival Google Inc. had hired him to do.
King County Superior Court Judge Steven Gonzalez's decision supersedes a temporary restraining order he imposed this summer and remains in effect until Microsoft's lawsuit against Google goes to trial in January.
Kai-Fu Lee remains barred from working on products, services or projects he worked on at Microsoft, including computer search technology. But while the judge said that a noncompete agreement Lee signed with Microsoft is valid, he said recruiting and staffing a Google center in China would not violate that agreement.
Lee cannot set budget or compensation levels or define the research that Google will do in China, but he can hire people to work there, the judge said.
posted by Fergie @ 9/13/2005 11:51:00 AM
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