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Rather than focus on the bad focus on the good part. He got someone he thought was better and decided to go with that. From a business perspective and if you remove the short term way it looks (or his reputation impact) it is a good move. Of course a writer for a blog or news site doesn't see it that way. Because of course (to take an extreme) if you just started working at the local paper and the New York Times offered you a position you'd turn it down, right?

Back in the day a long long time ago I remember someone who had taken a job at Sun. Two weeks later he left because Apple came through with an offer and he really wanted to work for Apple. I thought it was really rude because I would have never had the guts to do that. I would have felt obligated to stay at the job that I had because that is the way I was raised. But when you consider that Sun would have let him go at the drop of a hat if it suited their business purpose it actually made sense and I learned from that event and seeing what happened later because he went with Apple.