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Isn't there a risk that reimplementing a previous employer's tool constitutes a legal/contractual violation of some kind?
by asymmetric 10y ago
Isn't there a risk that reimplementing a previous employer's tool constitutes a legal/contractual violation of some kind?
- Asooka 10y agoIt's almost certain that it is a legal violation and if a lawsuit was brought, I'd bet a million dollars in favour of Google; however, the tool itself isn't the final product and it's silly, counterproductive and just outright malicious to sabotage efforts at building good tooling in a competitor's company. Plus, it will set precedent and Google would have to vet every single new internal tool against what the previous employers of their employees were doing.