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Re:Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers by mprev on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:00PM (#22939798)
There are circumstances in which non-competes are enforceable in the UK. Even if it doesn’t technically apply to your situation, it can end up with a court deciding. At the least, a bloody minded employer can make it too expensive and painful to hire you by taking out an injunction against the new employer.

Sadly, thinking non-competes don’t apply in the UK has led people to sign them glibly and then face problems later.

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Re:Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers by simonbarker87 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:32AM (#22942553)
Interesting - I’ve been given the advice twice UK UK solicitors when signing VC deals that non-competes are unenforceable in the UK and not to bother fighting to remove them (we will did on the first raise and the VC took it off). I think the main argument used by the solicitor is that it’s illegal to stop someone from making a living. I’m not a lawyer, just going on experience here. You may well be correct
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