What did Boston do wrong? Enforce non-competes. Non-competes may be "business friendly" for individual businesses, but for health of business as a whole, they

What did Boston do wrong? Enforce non-competes. Non-competes may be "business friendly" for individual businesses, but for health of business as a whole, they just allow entrenched mediocre management to stifle technology by preventing employees who see they could do it better from out-competing them. The traitorous eight and the many who have done similar things are what made Silicon Valley.