Matrox sues Nvidia

[Helevitia]

Interesting...

here's the link just in case noone believes me:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor...sp?Symbol=NVDA

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

On February 22, 2000, Graphiques Matrox, Inc. and Systemes Electroniques
Matrox Ltd. (collectively "Matrox") filed suit against us in the Superior
Court, Judicial District of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. The suit
alleges that we improperly solicited and recruited Matrox employees and
encouraged Matrox employees to breach their Matrox confidentiality and/or non-
competition agreements. The suit by Matrox seeks, among other things, certain
injunctive relief. We believe that the claims asserted by Matrox are without
merit and we intend to vigorously defend this suit.

On May 19, 2000, we filed suit against Matrox in Santa Clara County Superior
Court alleging that Matrox's efforts to prevent its current and former
employees from pursuing employment opportunities with us constitute
interference with prospective economic advantage and contract and unfair
competition. Our suit seeks, among other things, unspecified monetary damages,
a declaration that Matrox's confidentiality and/or non-competition agreements
are unenforceable under California law and a declaration that its use of those
agreements and other tactics constitutes unfair competition. On May 26, 2000,
the case was transferred to the San Jose Division of the United States District
Court for the Northern District of California.

[andrei]

Someone else brought it up over on Matrox Hardware, 20 minutes before you
http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum5/HTML/009054.html

about it, I didn't expect Nvidia would stick so low. Isn't this cause for industrial espionage ?

[This message has been edited by andrei (edited 10 July 2000).]

[dZeus]

so appearantly they do not only put pressure on affiliated sites not to publish favourable reviews on competitor's products, they also try to steal technology from other companies!

The only thing I have to say about this is:

F*CK nVidia! I WILL NEVER, _EVER_ BUY ANOTHER nVidia POWERED VIDEOCARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!

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- What do you get when you put N nVidia whores in a circle and each one pats the person on their right on the back and says "nVidia wins 3dfx and Michael Knight any day of the week!" ?

- You get N people with a boosted ego, and no-one loses anything; keep up the good work, boys!

[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 10 July 2000).]

[Jorden]

"we improperly solicited and recruited Matrox employees and encouraged Matrox employees to breach their Matrox confidentiality and/or non-competition agreements"

No-one asked me

But then again, I'm only Cheeserator... errr Mod at MURC

Btw, I read this before. Not on the fori, but straight from Ant. Still a formidable message from nVidia to Matrox and v.v.

How low can you go, right?

Jord.

[The PIT]

Hey they could employ us all as on line tech support. Then we could say GTS a load of crap buy a G800 instead.

[Ant]

Hey careful what you say they might come after me next

[DuRaNgO[MU]]

hmmm, just found a case of g-whores on my back doorstep, now there really getting desperate
jim

and as for that box.....



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[SteveC]

Boring! Old News!

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