3 of the defendants have already settled (Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm)

Apr 21, 2014
10:24:33am

cheezedawg

I've been getting mailings about the settlement. Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe haven't settled and are taking it to trial.

From my reading about the case, its a longshot for the plaintiffs to win.

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Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe may have to pay $9 Billion in an anti-trust and

workindev

4/21/14 8:08am

maybe I can somehow get in on that. Maybe reduced wages trickled down to me too?

JackStack

4/21/14 8:26am

So who would get the $9 billion?

mudpupper

4/21/14 8:41am

my guess, 1/2 to the lawyers and the rest divided between the 64,000 engineers

Cougar Geek

4/21/14 8:50am

Even if the engineers get 50% of that, it's still 70k+ for each one.

Conan O'Fresno

4/21/14 9:45am

The lawsuit covers most of the last decade, so it would come out to about $7k

workindev

4/21/14 10:03am

I'll take some

pink22

4/21/14 9:25am

These types of shenanigans really make me feel the US is/has turned into a Oliga

BYU Grounds

4/21/14 9:56am

3 of the defendants have already settled (Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm)

cheezedawg

4/21/14 10:24am

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