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Re:Hex, Lies and Startups by mst on Friday August 09, 2013 @02:40PM (#6187497)
Trying to take some of your customers with you when you leave is ... often a grey area.

If they genuinely have more faith in you than in your former employer sans you, then it seems much harder to criticise. The problem, I think, is that anybody in that situation rationalises their point of view to that being true, even if it isn't.

I don't have a good answer here, other than "I don't intend to ever end up in a situation where I have to make a personal choice about it, because generally I don't consider even grey areas worth while."

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Re:Hex, Lies and Startups by raverbashing on Friday August 09, 2013 @03:46PM (#6187957)
Yes, it's not really "stealing" customers, it's a more nuanced thing and depends on how it was done, that's why I didn't mention it.

And of course the customer has a choice, he's not forced to go to the new company.

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