collusion

The person will get fired, but probably won't go to jail unless they can prove collusion.

By those standards collusion is also a tomato, a pair of shoes, and my left ear.

The big government/big corp/big law collusion makes this almost impossible in the USA.

It is made worse by the high-level collusion between the government and Hollywood.

Is the only difference that then it was collusion as opposed to an adversarial arms race?

Consumers don't have the flexibility to decide if they're dealing with only a small number of sellers working in collusion.

The thing that bothers me the most is that this illegal collusion suppressed wages for the entire software industry, robbing us all of money that lined the pockets of these companies.

Forgive me for sounding paranoid but this sounds like collusion between the government of Turkey and Turktrust, to intercept communications.

Doesn't matter if your anti-corporate or anti-government, corporate/government collusion permits right wingers and left wingers to get on the same page.

Is collusion more commonly accepted in some Asian cultures?I distinctly remember my grad school classes, where even by getting 95% I'd be dead last in the class rankings because all the Chinese/Indian students would get 98/99/100% on their assignments.

Of course, that doesn't excuse any of Google's behavior here; they've effectively stolen a great deal of money from all of us through illegal collusion, pocketing the money that an honest market would direct into the engineers' bank accounts.