Co-opetition in the High Tech Industry has in all probability existed since before said medium was even referred to as an ‘industry.’ Nevertheless, an ex-Microsoft employee’s activities are being classified as ‘stealing trade secrets’ (whereas they obviously went too far). In an era where the proliferation of Social Media makes said offenses sometimes even easier to track, etc. it’s still (almost) surreal that an individual working within the ‘industry’ would not know better (let alone commit such acts to begin with).
(Source) Computer World: http://goo.gl/VUBK8c