Comment Re:There is a major difference (Score 1) 132
Did you read the article? It seems that the only reason such a situation did not occur is because Sandberg told Google to pound sand. During the time in question, these emails clearly show that a very senior Google executive was directly asking Facebook not to hire Google employees, even if they employees in question wanted to go work there and what's more, good corporate relations were being pegged to that demand.
The article didn't come across as entirely clear to me. That particular point I missed on the first reading. I see that Rosenberg did go too far. The position facebook took did mean that in this particular case there was probably no harm done by Rosenberg's move. That doesn't make it acceptable though.
I wouldn't mind seeing facebook taking a small step towards Rosenberg's position. But Rosenberg was going even further off in the other direction. I'd certainly rather see facebook being a bit too aggressive in their search for candidates than I'd see facebook enter the agreement Rosenberg was suggesting.