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Or, you know, handle their termination with some care to honouring their contracts if you expect them to honour anything NDA / no compete for a while after...

quitit 3y ago
Meta have already stated that no former twitter employees worked on Threads. That's not all that surprising though, Meta could obviously build such a product from their own learnings and IP.
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- mandeepj 3y ago
  > That's not all that surprising though, Meta could obviously build such a product from their own learnings and IP. Twitter is a public app. How hard it’s to keep the app open on one monitor and write a spec doc on another?
  - yowzadave 3y ago
    The lawsuit claims that Meta hired ex-Twitter employees to build Threads, which seems to be both factually untrue and not illegal even if it were true. Are you shifting the goalposts to a different claim?
  - fennecfoxy 3y ago
    Depends on what constitutes IP. Is an artist with references open in another pane breaking copyright? If we stoop to the rounded-corners Apple level then there's not really much point anyone making anything new anymore.
    - LocalH 3y ago
      I mean, isn't the post you replied to essentially the clean room approach? One person/group does the actual reverse engineering and writes up the spec doc, and then a totally separate person/group takes that spec doc and produces code to implement it.
      - fennecfoxy 3y ago
        I think that was maybe applicable back in the Gates & Wozniak days but not so sure that approach would be considered "clean" now. It seems kind of ludicrous that one company can't look at another's product and create the same type of thing, just improved. That's how innovation works. It's just that in this case, apart from a handful of differences, the core innovation of threads seems to be that Twitter has been taken over by an egotistical maniac and while Zuck is still a billionaire he seems wholly less concerned with tooting his own horn in public as Elon is. I don't think Elon/Twitter has a leg to stand on, they don't own the concept of a public forum/social media platform, I'm sure that even the shortform that Twitter has enforced since its inception had been done long before.
        mandeepj 3y ago
        > I'm sure that even the shortform that Twitter has enforced since its inception had been done long before. Twitter's idea came from Text messages https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854 https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854

quitit 3y ago

Meta have already stated that no former twitter employees worked on Threads. That's not all that surprising though, Meta could obviously build such a product from their own learnings and IP.

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mandeepj 3y ago
> That's not all that surprising though, Meta could obviously build such a product from their own learnings and IP. Twitter is a public app. How hard it’s to keep the app open on one monitor and write a spec doc on another?
- yowzadave 3y ago
  The lawsuit claims that Meta hired ex-Twitter employees to build Threads, which seems to be both factually untrue and not illegal even if it were true. Are you shifting the goalposts to a different claim?
- fennecfoxy 3y ago
  Depends on what constitutes IP. Is an artist with references open in another pane breaking copyright? If we stoop to the rounded-corners Apple level then there's not really much point anyone making anything new anymore.
  - LocalH 3y ago
    I mean, isn't the post you replied to essentially the clean room approach? One person/group does the actual reverse engineering and writes up the spec doc, and then a totally separate person/group takes that spec doc and produces code to implement it.
    - fennecfoxy 3y ago
      I think that was maybe applicable back in the Gates & Wozniak days but not so sure that approach would be considered "clean" now. It seems kind of ludicrous that one company can't look at another's product and create the same type of thing, just improved. That's how innovation works. It's just that in this case, apart from a handful of differences, the core innovation of threads seems to be that Twitter has been taken over by an egotistical maniac and while Zuck is still a billionaire he seems wholly less concerned with tooting his own horn in public as Elon is. I don't think Elon/Twitter has a leg to stand on, they don't own the concept of a public forum/social media platform, I'm sure that even the shortform that Twitter has enforced since its inception had been done long before.
      - mandeepj 3y ago
        > I'm sure that even the shortform that Twitter has enforced since its inception had been done long before. Twitter's idea came from Text messages https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854 https://www.lifewire.com/history-of-twitter-3288854