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Re:The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle ... by human20190310 on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:36AM (#20838439)
I think there is a difference. You can't really operate a competing company off of the contents of one person's brain. You need a documented body of knowledge that the whole company can refer to, with meta-information including how the research was undertaken.

Having the actual documents makes a huge practical difference. In the absence of the documents, the employee's new company basically has to re-do the research under the employee's guidance.

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Re:The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle ... by gingabriska on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:51AM (#20838569)
> can't really operate a competing company off of the contents of one person's brain. You need a documented body of knowledge that the whole company can refer to, with meta-information including how the research was undertaken

Some will disagree because there exist people who can memorize everything.

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Re:The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle ... by lostmsu on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:27AM (#20839513)
No they can't. And no you still need , because one person can't do all work.
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Re:The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle ... by gingabriska on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:11PM (#20839945)
Aren't there people with photographic memory?

Or you are saying that a person can't create a plan to be followed by people below him?

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Re:The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle ... by leetcrew on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:32PM (#20840666)
IANAL, but I assume that if someone actually memorized a confidential document, rewrote it from memory, and showed it to people at another company, it would be equivalent to just walking out the door with the physical document in the eyes of the law. judges tend not to be amused by these kinds of logical gymnastics.
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Re:The Anthony Levandowski Indictment Helps Big Tech Stifle ... by lostmsu on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:37PM (#20841274)
Not in that sense, no. I am sure no one on Earth would be able to reproduce a 600x600 pic identical to original.

It would be a life's work for anyone to memorize 600kb text only file.

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