Non-Compete Pacts Called Bad For Tech Innovation

carusoj writes in with NetworkWorld reporting from a panel at Harvard last week. It concluded that employee non-compete agreements have stifled tech startup development in Massachusetts, where the pacts are aggressively enforced, but failed to hold back the tech industry boom in states like California, where they are mostly unenforceable. We've discussed non-competes often here in the past; Techdirt made much the same point a year and a half back.

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Happy now LIBERALS?????

Uh, looks to me like the (falsely named) conservatives are at the root of the selling out of America fora cheap buck to no focus on future sustainability of their thieving ways. Howdafuck do you possibly think this is the fault of what you ignorantly call 'liberals'. Liberals==LIBERTY, Conservatives!=CONSERVATION.

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[Omestes]

And advertising your political dogma of choice = priceless?

Seriously, I'm getting sick of the partisan menage a trois on /. lately. The libertarian vs. liberal vs. conservative propaganda is getting pretty old. I hope it goes away after the elections.

Libertarians are as ideological (read: not based in reality) as the other dogmas of politics. Yes, too many taxes are bad, and yes corporatism is bad. ANY damn one word political dogma is myopic.

The truth, as always, lies someplace between. Maybe, someday, we'll find it by accident. But in the mean time, can we give it a goddamn rest? People who agree with you, already do, and those who don't won't buy it because of catch phases.