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From: mcdowell@exlog.com (Steve McDowell)
Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
Message-ID: <1992Jul22.235604.27104@exlog.com>
Organization: Exploration Logging, Inc.
References: <QUANSTRO.92Jul21140234@lars.StOlaf.edu> <1992Jul21.235727.4693@unislc.uucp> <FSTX.92Jul22102314@meryl.csd.uu.se>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 23:56:04 GMT
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In message <FSTX.92Jul22102314@meryl.csd.uu.se>fstx@meryl.csd.uu.se (Fredrik Stax{ng) writes:
> If AT&T wins, wouldn't that mean that in computers, you can't switch company
> without switching careers? This claim could be applied to any company that
> employs programmers that has worked for any other company before.
How about this, from one of last week's "Wall Street Journal"s. It follows the same
line of thinking that AT&T seems to be using in this BSDI thing. It's pretty scarey
for anyone doing sensitive, or proprietary, work who's looking for like work elsewhere.
---- BEGIN QUOTED ---
IBM SUES TO SILENCE FORMER EMPLOYEE
Peter Bonyhard was one of [IBM]'s star engineers when disk-drive maker Seagate
Technology Inc. hired him away last year. Seagate instantly gave him a high-stakes
assignment: develop its next generation of "heads"....
... bunch of stuff deleted ....
Today IBM and Peter Bonyhard are embroiled in a fierce legal battle, one that
raises sweeping questions about job-hopping in the computer industry. IBM says
Seagate lured Mr. Bonyhard to steal its secret formula for MR heads. In December
IBM won an injunction in US District Court...barring Mr. Bonyhard from working
on Seagate's MR project.
... more stuff deleted ....
In an unusually aggressive move, IBM launched its suit against Mr. Bonyhard
without even claiming to have any evidence that he had actually leaked secrets.
Instead, IBM declared that there would simply be no way for Mr. Bonyhard to do
his new job at Seagate without disclosing confidential IBM information.
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The article goes on to say that IBM is warning other employees that have left
to work for the competition.
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