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Inevitable Disclosure

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CajunCenturion

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Mar 4, 2002
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This could be worth keeping an eye on.

Legal argument could hamper high-tech job-changers

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I would hope that the big players in this battle swing enough weight to get a definitive and precedent setting decision from the courts.
Things have been tending towards voiding non-competes and to do so here would be a good signal for worker's rights.

Ed Fair
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The judges who understand business realities understand that inevitably there will be opportunities for information to be disclosed to competitors"
If this is so inevitable, then I would understand that it means it is a part of the playing field that a company must accept and deal with, like taxes. If it is inevitable, then there is no law that can protect against it.

Pascal.

"You can't shut off part of your brain" - funny, I see people do just that every day. :)
 
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