In the 1990s, Microsoft was the tech industry wunderkind that got too big for its britches � and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, then an executive at Sun Microsystems and later Novell, helped knock the software titan down a peg by providing evidence in the government�s antitrust case against it
Oh of course him receiving compensation for his testimony goes without question. And if not directly or in some offshore account it surely paid off in the long run.