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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by blueprint on Thursday January 05, 2023 @12:46PM (#34263563)
you're not automatically entitled to use or benefit from the IP developed by others and then disclosed to you just because you signed a paper that promises to pay you for work. maybe it makes more sense where your opponent is a horrible but huge company like facebook but this move can kill development of sensitive or novel tech by underfunded entrepreneurs. it is a mistake for the USA. maybe you guys should downvote me more while you ride around in your teslas powered by slave labor batteries.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by aliher1911 on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:12PM (#34263980)
I think you are confusing non-compete and NDA, IP rights, non solicitation agreements and the like. You can go work for competitor, but it doesn't allow you to use any of your previous employer's IP, poach colleagues, clients etc. Doesn't prevent you from using your expertise and come up with novel things. And some big companies do care that you don't do it, because they don't want to go into litigations because layers like to target fat cats.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by blueprint on Thursday January 05, 2023 @02:32PM (#34265231)
i'm not conflating them. i know what i wrote. humans cannot avoid using IP from previous companies. what's your background ? (are you technical?) and there's more to this than existing big companies and their disposable funding.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by aliher1911 on Friday January 06, 2023 @04:39AM (#34272801)
I don't think my background is important here. But I'm technical if you need to know. I had first hand experience of colleagues specifically not working on certain parts of projects because of NDA from their previous employments.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by blueprint on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:08PM (#34278515)
Well, by doing so, they've already violated the NDA.
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by mardifoufs on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:00PM (#34263787)
What does tesla batteries have anything to do with this? And california has banned them for years but its tech sector seems to be thriving and much, much stronger than anywhere in Europe that actually enforces them. So what are you basing your prediction on?
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Re:FTC Proposes Banning Noncompete Clauses for Workers by blueprint on Thursday January 05, 2023 @01:15PM (#34264027)
> What does tesla batteries have anything to do with this?

it's commentary on the bubble of entitled and unrealistic rich kids who never had to build anything from the dirt. i might as well have made fun of humanity living on borrowed time by burning fossil fuels. my prediction is based on cause and effect. if you do something with a wrong reason you are guaranteed a wrong result, even if you kill all those who still have the faculties to perceive reality. go ahead and attempt to minimize my words so the world can continue to compartmentalize the price of endless technological development. my comments are probably for the future humanity, not for the masses of people in the present.

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