To understand his contributions, we have to look beyond the headlines.

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Poaching talented, high-value employees is a regular occurrence in Silicon Valley where state law makes non-compete agreements essentially void, but it's a practice that Steve Jobs desperately tried to stop in the last decade when Palm, Google, and others came calling. Newly-disclosed emails between Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and others show the civil (and not-so-civil) exchanges that took place.

Besides Barack Obama's reelection, perhaps the most valuable product to come out of Obama for America's efforts in this election cycle is a host of software — software that helped secure victory. Now, a fight is emerging over who owns the software and whether it'll be opened to the public. Ben Popper reports.

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