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Re:Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets by creato on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:22PM (#20812870)
> I feel like most software engineers don't really take intellectual property all that seriously. Most will not think twice about backing up emails when leaving the company which might contain code diffs, design docs, etc.

You can't be serious. I would never think of doing this, and I can't imagine who would.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets by P_I_Staker on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:49PM (#20822184)
You might be surprised. Some people don't give a rats ass about IP, including software engineers. I definitely wouldn't say most, though.
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Re:Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets by bifrost on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:45PM (#20813134)
You'd be a rare bird.

Most employees don't even bother to not pirate software, look at porn or whatever on their work laptops. Its somewhat hilarious.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets by azylman on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:38PM (#20813650)
You're comparing apples to oranges.

I know a lot of engineers at a lot of companies who look at porn on their work laptops (which isn't illegal). I don't know a single engineer who would take documents from their previous company to their new company (which is very illegal).

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets by P_I_Staker on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:46PM (#20822153)
Not rare at all in the software industry, is very common. I'd say people are more split than OPs letting on, but plenty of software engineers are extremely serious about IP.
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