I'm afraid you overstate the value of the personnel at the borg. Since the beginning, the borg has been run from the top. The so-called 'talent pool' has always consisted of kids right out of college who don't know any better than to join the borg which receives them with open arms knowing full well that they will have complete control over their lives. People who've been in the IT world for any length of time are generally smart enough to avoid the stultifying and humiliating atmosphere of the borg. You can deploy strategies inducing an exodus from the borg until you're blue in the face and still there will be that reserve army of labor coming out of the 2 and 4-year institutions of 'hire' learning from which the borg can assimilate new recruits with little or no effort.
How is it that after all these years, starting with Borg's first attempt back in the mid-1970s at locking up open-source software via licensing that people are still trying to do deals with his company? Would it have anything to do with greed and the desire to succeed vicariously the way Borg did when he signed a nondisclosure agreement with Big Blue way back when? Did you really think in your wildest dreams that there somehow would be an exception in your case? Now you're saying, "oh, he's done it again! He's pulled the football right out from under our feet." How many more times will it take before people wake up to the way things are done in Redmond? When Borg walks up to you and says, "show me yours and I'll show you mine," are you going to tell him to piss off? Probably not. There are too many dollars at stake. Right?
BTW, the DMCA has no teeth in the matter at hand and Borg knows that. If it did, why would he insist on a nondisclosure agreement? He might have simply pointed to protection under copyright law.
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I'm afraid you overstate the value of the personnel at the borg. Since the beginning, the borg has been run from the top. The so-called 'talent pool' has always consisted of kids right out of college who don't know any better than to join the borg which receives them with open arms knowing full well that they will have complete control over their lives. People who've been in the IT world for any length of time are generally smart enough to avoid the stultifying and humiliating atmosphere of the borg. You can deploy strategies inducing an exodus from the borg until you're blue in the face and still there will be that reserve army of labor coming out of the 2 and 4-year institutions of 'hire' learning from which the borg can assimilate new recruits with little or no effort.
How is it that after all these years, starting with Borg's first attempt back in the mid-1970s at locking up open-source software via licensing that people are still trying to do deals with his company? Would it have anything to do with greed and the desire to succeed vicariously the way Borg did when he signed a nondisclosure agreement with Big Blue way back when? Did you really think in your wildest dreams that there somehow would be an exception in your case? Now you're saying, "oh, he's done it again! He's pulled the football right out from under our feet." How many more times will it take before people wake up to the way things are done in Redmond? When Borg walks up to you and says, "show me yours and I'll show you mine," are you going to tell him to piss off? Probably not. There are too many dollars at stake. Right?
BTW, the DMCA has no teeth in the matter at hand and Borg knows that. If it did, why would he insist on a nondisclosure agreement? He might have simply pointed to protection under copyright law.