Comments on: Sun countersues start-up Azul

Server maker argues Java hardware Azul infringed six patents and got trade secrets by hiring Sun employees.

[rindalke]

Sun Sue?

I guess they really know the art of war.

[Blito]

Employees not as good as GPL'd UltraSPARK?

The UltraSPARk is under the GPL license so it promotes market competition through ownership rights of distribution and innovation. But apparently the employees are not.

"According to Sun's countersuit, "Azul developed products and product strategy based on Sun's innovation rather than its own. By hiring away key former Sun employees, Azul improperly accessed Sun's technology and plans, which enabled Azul to accelerate introduction of its products to market."

To me I wouldn't sign my inventiveness away to a company or; it should be illegal in a free market economy in America. People are allowed to quit and start another job if they want in this country.

[Kevin Walker]

Leave ULTRA Spark ->x86?

Maybe it's time sun started to build serious x86 based solutions?

[zolyfarkas]

pay your key employees acordingly and they will stay

Reward the good ones, fire the poor ones(fast).
Big companies should start appreciating the good engineers and get rif of those rigid reward structures.
Don't start whining when your good engineers leave for a competitor. Pay them well and they will stay. (most of them at least).