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"If they decide to sue, they get to look through your email records (it's called "discovery"). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. You lose."
by johnrob 17y ago
"If they decide to sue, they get to look through your email records (it's called "discovery"). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. You lose."
The simple solution that PG has recommended in the past is to rewrite all the code. Does that protect you from the above?
- tptacek 17y agoNo. You still invested your employers resources in your business.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoIANAL, and I've never been in that position, but I would use a different language in rewriting. If you rewrite in the same language, a lot of your functions will look very similar, and that similarity might be enough to burn you. Changing languages, on the other hand, will enforce significant difference on your approach to the problem, and possibly improve it. (I have no idea how this would play out in court.) If nothing else, it's an excuse to learn a new language.