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“Google will defend and support you. Don’t
give up!”
“I’ll come home and search for
APCO’s document on the Internet. Unless
they also released it in the public domain, I’m doomed. I am giving myself 24
hours and then I will need to tell Google to blame it all on me.”
At that moment, I felt a chill
down my spine. My professional life might be over. My reputation might end. My
adventurous job change might turn into doom. My voice was shaking, and I could
not control tears coming down my cheeks.
After I went home, I did not find
the APCO presentation in the public domain. I called my friend Huang Yong, who
had connections with APCO, and asked what he knew. He said to his knowledge
Microsoft didn’t do much work with APCO, but it was possible that LCA (Legal
& Corporate Affairs) did some work. He said he would check for me.
After talking to Huang Yong, I
searched my files again. Eventually, I found two copies of the APCO
presentation. One was presented by APCO, and the other had a presentation
template, “Microsoft Confidential,” inserted, probably by a Microsoft person
who took it from the APCO presentation to an internal Microsoft
presentation.
The APCO presentation was
actually NOT Microsoft Confidential! The
version I found was embedded in another presentation that was marked Microsoft
Confidential, but the APCO presentation was just a business development
presentation with general public information.
So the “confidential” marking was just a result of a template change. Now, if we could prove Microsoft didn’t pay
for the data, then we could refute Microsoft’s claim.
A few hours later, Huang
Yong called back, and said his friend at APCO told him that it was a
presentation made to Microsoft as a business development presentation – to try
to win business from Microsoft. It was unpaid. He also said the data contained
in the presentation were all obtained from public sources.
As I uncovered more and
more about the true public nature of this paper, my 24-hour scare was over. But
Microsoft didn’t know all this, and they would probably start another round of
negative rumor spreading to the media...
This was really ugly, uglier than I could have ever imagined.
I needed to call David Drummond,
Google’s Chief Legal Officer, to find a way to fight back…
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