[Am-info] Larry Ellison and yet more industrial espionage

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

Thanks for the sports update.  Please keep us posted as to who wins the
race.  :-)

gates would have just paid the guy and used it in his xp yacht and claimed
it was all his own innovation.  

Mark

In <OE38niB6xVlv66zwIbt0000468f@hotmail.com>, on 10/29/01 at 11:50 PM,
   "Simon Cooke" <spectecjr@hotmail.com> said:

>http://espn.go.com/moresports/news/2001/1024/1268693.html

>SEATTLE -- Billionaire Craig McCaw's yachting concern is suing a former
>employee, saying the worker tried to sell design secrets for two racing
>yachts to a rival America's Cup competitor owned by software mogul Larry
>Ellison.
>Ellison's team said it realized the information had been provided
>improperly and reported the incident to OneWorld Challenge, McCaw's $85
>million bid to represent the United States in the 2003 America's Cup,
>according to papers filed in King County Superior Court.
>"The information includes, among other things, hull design, crew
>training, team member eligibility and construction data," the papers
>said. The secrets are "contained on papers, diskettes, and/or in John
>Doe's memory."

>More in the article. Larry Ellison, of course, is best known of late for
>paying people to dig through Microsoft's trash.

>Simon
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