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What right does the public have to know this? None. It's their secret sauce, it's reasonable they don't want to publicize it. Obviously, Radon has every right
by truetraveller 5y ago
What right does the public have to know this? None.
It's their secret sauce, it's reasonable they don't want to publicize it.
Obviously, Radon has every right to know. But not us.
- Elidrake24 5y agoThey made claims and threatened legal action; certainly the public doesn’t need to legally know until a lawsuit is actually brought, but they would be required to present such evidence to the public in court. Do they have to currently? No, of course not. But this isn’t someone claiming that another did something behind closed doors to bait public disclosure. They opened this door by making the claims, from a standpoint of whether one might want to do business with replit in the future it’s entirely reasonable to ask for proof of what otherwise are slanderous claims.
- otterley 5y agoYou don’t have to reveal your trade secrets in open court. They can be shown to the judge “in camera” and redacted from public filings. If all you had to do to get a company to reveal all its secrets were to sue it on some plausible legal theory and conduct discovery, everyone would do it.
- Barrin92 5y ago>You don’t have to reveal your trade secrets in open court well excellent that we're not in a court here on HN or Twitter then. If he decides to intimidate someone without putting any concrete evidence up for it we're well within our rights to drag him over the coals for it. Dogs that bark don't bite, if he wanted to avoid this he should have gone to his lawyers directly, instead he's already issuing half-baked apologies in this very thread. Which means he has zilch and just wanted to bully a recent graduate into taking his product off the internet.
- atkailash 5y agoDoesn’t mean he couldn’t have told the former intern though, who supposedly would already know this, and it appears the exact opposite happened instead and instead a threatening stance was taken with no attempt at reconciliation.
- yumraj 5y agoSure, Public - None, the accused as in Radon has absolute full right. You can't simply make an allegation and not back it up If the CEO had engaged with Radon in a rational civilized manner the situation would have never reached this stage.
- jrochkind1 5y agotheir secret sauce for... things they consider flaws?
- truetraveller 5y agoFlaws being copied is a hallmark sign of copying something verbatim.
- jrochkind1 5y agoRight, and then to demonstrate it, you reveal what was copied.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe project is open source. The public already knows. His proposed plan of action, a lawsuit, would also bind him to make those details public.