Sounds like a reporter who doesn't really understand how a lot of this stuff works (didn't study it, never worked in the field?) but think he/she does. It see

Sounds like a reporter who doesn't really understand how a lot of this stuff works (didn't study it, never worked in the field?) but think he/she does. It seems really common. He's missing the whole thing about the documents. If Levandowski steals the schematics the new companies circuit boards might look near identical. If he uses his knowledge at the new company to design new circuit boards they won't look near identical and be at risk of copyright infringement cause inevitably he'd change things & improve things cause that's the way people work. Same thing with code.. if you copy & paste the code from your old employer into your new one's codebase that will look very different than if you design & write a new implementation to do something similar. It doesn't necessarily sound like Levandowski did any of this kind of work himself though. It sounds more like he walked out the door with a pile of documents explaining the designs of people who worked for him.