{"id":11032,"date":"2015-04-10T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:08:01","slug":"et-tu-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/10\/et-tu-tim\/","title":{"rendered":"Et Tu, Tim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2015-04-09-Et-Tu-Tim.html\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2015-04-09-Et-Tu-Tim.html\">\n<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/biz\/news\/dreamworks-animation-disney-antitrust-suit-dismissed-1201466708\/\">U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh dismissed a class action lawsuit<\/a> against several animation, and visual effects companies. This is directly tied to the emails uncovered in a 2010 suit by the Justice Department for the companies agreeing not to poach employees from one another. Ed Catmull &mdash; one of the most important people in computer graphics, and film &mdash; was <a href=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2014-07-10-Et-Tu-Ed.html\">sending very casual emails about coercing people to participate in the no-poaching scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When Koh ruled against the former employees, I was gobsmacked that the employees couldn&rsquo;t sue the companies because the statue of limitations had expired. The clock started ticking when the employees were affected, not when proof of a scheme came to light. So tough cookies.<\/p>\n<p>During my twitter indignation over this, Glenn Fleishman and Jason Snell pointed me towards the new <em>Becoming Steve Jobs<\/em> book. They informed me that the book doesn&rsquo;t shy away from it (unlike Catmull&rsquo;s autobiography) and specifically includes a quote from Tim Cook defending Steve Jobs&rsquo; position in this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rosensteel: A few days ago, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh dismissed a class action lawsuit against several animation, and visual effects companies. This is directly tied to the emails uncovered in a 2010 suit by the Justice Department for the companies agreeing not to poach employees from one another. Ed Catmull &mdash; one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-18T11:08:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"7d81b546-c8d7-4ed4-bf6c-03617ebb3e1c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-18T11:08:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfYG1RsjXTtS_bANhfrs-HA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,38,101,939,937,41,209,117,173,60],"class_list":["post-11032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-ed-catmull","tag-hiring","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-pixar","tag-stevejobs","tag-timcook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}