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Re:Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup... by alasdair_ on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:48PM (#22133137)
>He wasn't being paid by Apple while he was working on NeXT though (at least I don't believe).

He resigned on the same day he told them about NeXT, which had already had a good amount of work put into its planning (including poaching several apple engineers). I think it's reasonable to assume that before he resigned, he was being paid.

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Re:Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup... by flomo on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:01AM (#22136270)
IIRC, there was a lawsuit which was settled. Check old Infoworld or other traderags.
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Re:Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup... by chii on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:08PM (#22134740)
it's hard to pin any actual evidence that he used company resources to plan/execute the NeXT startup though.
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