LimitNone LLC Sues Google Over e-mail Tool

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Google Inc was named on Monday in a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.

LimitNone LLC filed a complaint in an Illinois circuit court alleging that Google at first began promoting the smaller firm's tool for migrating Microsoft Outlook customers to Gmail, then copied the idea and went into competition with it.

LimitNone LLC Sues Google Over e-mail Tool [uk.reuters.com]

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I think everyone who reads this topic should read that article, both pages! If Google is found to be guilty of this particular practice, I will have zero respect for them after this. In fact, I will seek help to rid that word Google from crossing my lips or allowing my fingers to type it on the keyboard! That is really bad business. I'm going to bite my tongue until the final outcome of this which could be 3 to 4 years, who knows?

If you don't want to read both pages, these three paragraphs are all you need to see...

LimitNone said it entered a confidentiality deal with Google to share trade secrets of its e-mail migration tool with Google engineers, sales people and key Google Apps customers.

LimitNone had been told by Google that 50 million subscribers was "just too big to come from someone else" and that a simple calculation of the lost revenue for LimitNone "very quickly gets you up to about $950 million."

Google introduced a free, competing e-mail migration tool called "Google Email Uploader" earlier this year, which the lawsuit alleges is "almost identical" to gMove and that "both operate under a similar conceptual design."

Bite your tongue hard Edward, draw blood dude...