>>"potentially massive amounts of e-mail correspondence generated and received by Intel executives and employees since the filing of the lawsuit may be irretrievably lost, as may other relevant electronic documents."<<\
I believe all conversations should be treated equally, be they conversations in the parking lot or email. NOBODY who was not an addressee should be allowed to REQUIRE they be made public unless they were OFFICIAL company notification to employees.
I NEVER write down what can be said if it is even remotely possible it could come back to bite me. It frustrates some where I work.
What would you expect from a company that puts a "tracking device" in their CPU's and then denies it? Until that is they were caught red handed and had to release a software tool that would turn off the device(Which by the way never really worked, the software tool that is.)
"Sounds like Intel has been reading the Hillary Clinton and Sandy Berger book, Legal Evidence Retention for Dummies"
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Right on - you beat me to it. "I just cannot recall..."
There.
I fixed it.
In fact, this company policy of absurdly sloppy data retention practices in an ongoing lawsuit is tantamount to an official invitation for the destruction of evidence. Someone should really go to jail for it.
For a company that is one of the very core establishments of the computer industry itself, this kind of negligence is far beyond the level of a simple "Whoops! My bad."
Head should roll. It's a spit in the eye of the law.