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微软披露李开复电邮细节，称颁布工作禁令体现法律公正
--法庭文件显示： 微软CEO Ballmer誓言灭了Google

（CNET09/02美西报道）本周五，法庭公布的一份文件显示，一位曾经效力微软的高级工程师在转投Google前，曾向微软CEO（Chief Executive Officer, 首席执行长）Steve Ballmer辞行，Ballmer听后暴跳如雷，破口大骂，拍桌子打板凳地誓言要灭了Google。

微软高层李开复博士7月宣布投奔Google怀抱，微软立刻还以颜色，状告李违反1年不得与微软竞争的工作条款，Google也脱不了干系，于是双方在法庭上你来我往，斗得不可开交。这份在华盛顿州法庭对微软CEO提出的最新指控，再次为这场龙争虎斗增添 不少声色。

在周五所公布的一份证词里，于2004年11月加盟Google的微软前任高级工程师Mark Lucovsky回忆了当初他y告诉Ballmer他将为搜索引擎巨子公司工作时，Ballmer是如何的失态。

Lucovosky在证词中称，“当谈话中进行到某种程度时，Ballmer先生甚至这样说：‘别告诉我你是要为Google工作就行了。’” Lucovosky表示他不断重复他要加盟的正是Google。

Lucovosky回忆说：“这时，Ballmer先生变得怒不可遏，顺水操起一张椅子，狠狠摔向房间的一角，椅子砸到他办公室的一张桌子上。”然后Ballmer开始对Google的CEO Eric Schmidt恶言相加，“我要宰了那个狗x养的兔x子。我以前这么干过，我现在还可以再干一次。我要他x的灭了Google。” Schmidt先前曾替Sun工作过，也担任过Novell公司的CEO。

上周五，Ballmer发表了一个声明，驳斥了Lucovsky的说法。 Ballmer指出：“Mark Lucovsky对于我和他之间于去年11月所作的谈话，作了夸大的描述，与事实不符。”他说：“Mark决定离开是很令人失望，我强烈希望他能回心转意。他对谈话实质内容的理解是不确切的。”

Lukovsky的证词，对于Google和微软因为李开复博士事件而引发的这场交恶，犹如火上浇油。Google声言，微软企图恐赫自己的员工，防止他们投奔Google。

在周五的法庭公开文件中，Google也辩称如果在开庭前允许李博士加盟Google，李也不会从事与他在微软相抵触的工作，哪怕是咨询性质的工作也不会。事实上，要不是这个案子，李博士将会在中国建立产品开发中心，并主持相关业务，手下也不会统领任何微 软员工。

在另一份公开的法庭文件中，微软称李开复博士给Google高层的电子邮件，有力地证实了李博士本人谋求搜索巨擎Google在中国的最高职位，确实违背了与微软所签订的工作合同条款。

微软星期五公开了向法庭递交的有关文件，根据文件内容显示，李博士在5月7日向Google创始人及首席执行长发送了电子邮件，表示他听说Google中国业务开展在即，他本人对此报有浓厚的兴趣，并愿进一步详谈。据CNET news.com所获得的这份微软公开资料，信中李博士自我定位是“微软副总裁，并正从事与Google业务相关领域的工作。”

微软也指出，在同一封电子邮件中，李博士给出了自己张贴在微软网站的简历连接地址。Google此前声称这份简历正好说明李博士要为Google所作的事，和他此前在微软所从事的无关。

此外，这份文件也首次披露了Google为雇用李博士所开出的价码。微软称，Google为李博士开出的补偿总值超过了1千万美元，其中包括: 签约时立刻支付的2百50万美元的现金，受雇Google 1年之后将再获得1百50万美元的现金补偿。 这个条件，Google自己也称是“史无前例”的了。

这份邮件连同其它文件一起，由微软提交给法庭作为证据，要求法庭在案件最终判决前，发布禁令，暂时禁止李博士替Google从事与他在微软相抵触的工作。有关工作禁令的法庭聆讯定于下周二在西雅图King县最高法院举行。案件主审法官此前已批准微软的要求 ，在下周二举行正式听证会之前，颁布庭令，暂时禁止李博士为Google从事相关工作。

Google聘用李博士的计划一经曝光，立刻点燃了它与微软之间法律争斗的战火，并迅速演变成两强的大对决。Google7月19日一宣布将聘用李博士负责其新的中国研究中心，微软立刻入禀法院，将此事冻结。

Google针锋相对在加州法院提出反诉，对微软连消带打。反诉案现已转到位于加州圣何塞（San Jose）市的联邦地区法院审理。

微软前段时间就已向法庭提出请求，要求颁布工作禁令。微软对此事一直秘而不宣，待到本周五，控辩双方都有机会对提交法庭的秘密文件作出回应后，才昭告天下。

微软代表未就提交法庭文件之外的事宜多作说明。Google方面也没有立即对此发布任何评论。注： 此前曾报道过，因CNET news.com新闻报道了Google CEO的个人资料，引起Google不满，下令封杀CNET，禁令到2006年7月才能解除。

在这份新提交给法庭的文件中，微软也对李博士本人提出新的指控，称李本人仍在为微软工作期间，就替Google出谋划策，教给Google如何在中国招揽人才及制定中国地区发展战略。

微软在递交给法庭的文件中称：“2005年6月初，李博士就与Google员工积极探讨了...，Google物色人才一事，李博士也为Google中国研发中心（R&D，reasearch and development facility）向Google举荐了贤才。李博士并为此向Google作了详细的汇报，Google也采纳了他的主张和意见。”

文件中为举证，提及了李博士为微软工作时所提出的中国发展策略，李曾写过一篇名为“Making it in China: strategic recommendations for Microsoft（微软中国发展战略）”的文章。软件巨人称，让人即吃惊而又失望的是，李博士在6月7日，将这篇文章略作修改，就直接发给了Google，而当时李博士名义上仍是微软的雇员。据微软透露，李博士对此文所作的修改是： 删除了文中“Microsoft Configential（微软绝密）”的字样；抹去了文中其它微软作者的名字，去除了文章标题中的“recommendations for Microsoft”。

在提交的文件中，微软还透露李博士也“建议Google如有可能，也可招募微软在中国地区的员工。”，李强调从Intel和微软挖人，从技术上而言，对Google的工作最有益，但所面临的困难也会不小。微软还展示了Google执行副总裁Omid Kordestani回给李博士的电子邮件，Google这位副总裁在信中这样写道：“很高兴能和您交谈，得悉您对Google即将在中国开展的业务持充分乐观的态度，甚感欣慰。”


Microsoft: Lee's e-mails justify injunction
Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google
September 2, 2005
Ina Fried, Staff Writer, CNET News.com


Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.

The allegation, filed in Washington state court, is the latest salvo in an increasingly nasty court fight triggered when Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee jumped to Google in July in what Microsoft claims is a violation of a one-year, non-compete agreement.

In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky, another Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November 2004, recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told Ballmer he was going to work for the search engine company.

"At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just tell me it's not Google,'" Lucovosky said in his statement. Lucovosky replied that he was joining Google.

"At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell.

Late Friday, Ballmer issued a statement disputing Lucovsky's declaration. "Mark Lucovsky's account of our conversation last November is a gross exaggeration of what actually took place," Ballmer said. "Mark's decision to leave was disappointing and I urged him strongly to change his mind. But his characterization of that meeting is not accurate."

The Lukovsky declaration is the latest salvo in the heated battle between Google and Microsoft over Google's hiring of Lee. Google has said Microsoft is attempting to scare its employees away from Google.

In the filing made public Friday, Google also said in the filing that if Lee is allowed to join the company before a trial he will not "work or consult in any of the technical areas identified in Microsoft's proposed preliminary injunction. Rather, pending tiral, he will open a product development center in China, and staff it with non-Microsoft personnel."

Meanwhile, in separate court documents also made public Friday, Microsoft says e-mails that Kai-Fu Lee sent to Google executives bolster its case that the researcher is seeking to violate his employment contract by taking up a position as head of the search giant's China efforts.

According to a Microsoft filing made public on Friday, Lee sent a May 7 e-mail to Google's founder and chief executive saying that he had heard Google was opening a China office and expressing interest in discussing the matter. In the e-mail, Lee described himself as "Corporate VP at Microsoft working on areas very related to Google," Microsoft reveals in court documents seen by CNET News.com.

Microsoft also notes that, in the same e-mail, Lee linked to his corporate biography, which Google has cited as evidence that Lee's work was not directly related to the work he would do at Google.

In addition, the filing for the first time notes the size of Lee's pay package from Google. Microsoft says the search company agreed to compensation "worth in excess of $10 million, including a $2.5 million cash 'signing bonus' and another $1.5 million cash payment after one year, a package referred to internally at Google as 'unprecedented.'"

The document is part of Microsoft's argument as to why a judge should issue a preliminary injunction preventing Lee from taking a position at Google that would compete with his work at Microsoft until a trial can be held in the case. A hearing on the injunction request is planned for Tuesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle. The judge hearing the case has already granted Microsoft's request for a temporary restraining order preventing Lee from doing such work for Google until Tuesday's hearing.

Plans by Google to hire Lee sparked an immediate legal battle between the two companies, which have increasingly emerged as one another's top competitors. The search company announced on July 19 that it was hiring Lee to head a new China research center, with Microsoft immediately suing to block the move.

Google filed a countersuit in California court to invalidate the pact with Microsoft. That case has been moved to federal court in San Jose.

Microsoft's request for the injunction was filed some time ago, but only made public on Friday after both sides had an opportunity to redact confidential information.

A representative for Microsoft did not comment beyond the filing. A Google representative was not immediately available for comment. (Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story.)

In the latest documents, Microsoft also charges that Lee began advising Google on China recruiting and China strategy while he was still working on those issues for Microsoft.

"In early June 2005, Dr. Lee engaged in active e-mail correspondence with Google employees...regarding specific candidates that Google was considering--or candidates Dr. Lee wanted them to consider--for Google's China R&D facility," Microsoft said in the filing. "Dr. Lee gave detailed feedback and Google acted on his recommendations."

The filing cites examples of Lee's work on Microsoft's China strategy, including a white paper titled "Making it in China: strategic recommendations for Microsoft." The software maker said it was "surprised and disappointed" to learn that Lee had forwarded an edited version of that paper to Google on June 7, while he was still a Microsoft employee. The version he sent, the Windows maker said, removed the "Microsoft Confidential" notation as well as credit to other Microsoft contributors and the chapter entitled "recommendations for Microsoft."

Microsoft also said in the filing that Lee also "advised Google on the possibility of recruiting candidates in China from Microsoft" noting that Intel and Microsoft were the best opportunity to get technological leads for projects, but that recruiting from both would be difficult. Microsoft also cites an e-mail response Lee got from Google Vice President Omid Kordestani, in which the Google executive writes that "it was nice talking to you and learning about your insights into a successful approach to Google's operations in China."