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I can't imagine a case like that would ever hold up, unless you were working on company time or machines.

• geofft 8y ago
  I can't afford as many lawyers as Google can. Do you have examples of cases where a Google-style IP agreement was ruled unenforceable when someone was moonlighting on something that was in the same field of business as some other part of the company (but unrelated to their own day job)?
  • riku_iki 8y ago
    From another hand there are thousands of ex-googlers left company to engage in startups, and Google likely doesn't have enough lawyers to go after each of them..
    • geofft 8y ago
      Left to join/found a startup is different from working simultaneously at both.
      • riku_iki 8y ago
        Yes, but Google need some resources to monitor and research who exactly left to found, and who was working simultaneously at both with conflict of company interests.
    • aardvark291 8y ago
      You're not arguing that it's legal; you're arguing that you're unlikely to get caught. That's different.