Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit
by greglindahl on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:50AM
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How many of your NDAs have you gotten huge silicon valley companies to sign? If you're a little guy, that never happens.
Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit
by corford on Saturday October 07, 2017 @08:23AM
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I know we're all speculating here but what is there to lose? Option 1: Sign my NDA or fuck off. Option 2: Show them everything and then they tell you to fuck off and steal your idea. At least with Option 1 you have some protection.
Different equation if you need money/investment. But if you're already up, running and growing it's easier to play hard ball and demand an NDA.
Re:Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit
by greglindahl on Saturday October 07, 2017 @10:46PM
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I'm not speculating about my experiences working for a couple of startups in Silicon Valley... I signed a bunch of NDAs. I have no idea what happened to the author of this article.
But they were under NDA not to disclose the ideas, and yet they started a company marketing a product based on those ideas. If this is a correct interpretation, they don't have the legal ability to do so.
Of course the wording of the NDA is everything in a case like this. I'm assuming Google wrote the NDA when this guy should have provided one for Google to sign.