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Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job?

Posted by kdawson on from the clean-room-white-coats dept.

hi_caramba_2008 writes "We are a bunch of good friends at a large software company. The product we work on is under-budgeted and over-hyped by the sales drones. The code quality sucks, and management keeps pulling in different direction. Discussing this among ourselves, we talked about leaving the company and rebuilding the code from scratch over a few months. We are not taking any code with us. We are not taking customer lists (we probably will aim at different customers anyway). The code architecture will also be different — hosted vs. stand-alone, different modules and APIs. But at the feature level, we will imitate this product. Can we be sued for IP infringement, theft, or whatever? Are workers allowed to imitate the product they were working on? We know we have to deal with the non-compete clause in our employment contracts, but in our state this clause has been very difficult to enforce. We are more concerned with other IP legal aspects."

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  1. Slashdot ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Prevent the lawsuit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    And a commander-in-chief just pardons people :)

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    1. Re:The shortest hairs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hahaha that site is great.

      on or in his butt? and how do we know it isn't really a 'she'

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    3. Re:The shortest hairs... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Believe me. There is no fruit in this picture.

      Just a lot of the other kind of fruit.

  4. Re:the short hairs. by mcgrew · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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