So glad to live in California where that type of shit is explicitly illegal. Open source software would be so fucked with how much software is produced here.
So glad to live in California where that type of shit is explicitly illegal. Open source software would be so fucked with how much software is produced here.
Anders429@programming.dev 11 months ago
It’s explicitly illegal in California? I’ve never heard that before.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
California has a lot of laws that stops corps from pulling shit, the corps usually leave it in their employee contracts as a scare tactic though. Non-competes for example are illegal, the reasoning os that most arguements for it are already covered by corporate espionage laws. It also fucks over the worker 9/10.
vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 11 months ago
In large part because at least some portion of California lawmakers knows their history well enough to be aware that all of Silicon Valley is a thing in the first place because people were able to leave and take their ideas with them and start something new.
A huge portion of the value of Silicon Valley today can still be traced back to when the “Traitorous Eight” left Shockley Semiconductor to form Fairchild in 1957, and build tech based on what they’d learnt at Shockley, with many of them then going on to leave Fairchild and found further new companies. The outcome of that among many others resulted in both Intel and AMD, and the same pattern has repeated many times.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Makes sense, I wasnt actually aware of that. But then again im from the Inland Empire so the goings on of the coastal cities makes me want to lobotomize myself.