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From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer
Date: 15 Oct 1992 04:50:15 GMT
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References: <1992Oct13.050754.4113@sinkhole.unf.edu> <1992Oct13.175214.19534@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1bfp2oINNn4a@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
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In article <1bfp2oINNn4a@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
>In <1992Oct13.175214.19534@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>That's ridiculous.  You can't be held liable for leaking a trade secret
>if you never signed a non-disclosure agreement.

In the US today, you can be held liable for just about _anything_.

Whether the plaintiff will win is another thing.  I rather doubt
Diamond would have much of a case.  I also rather doubt that the
judge would throw it out of court.  Which means you're out big
bucks anyway, unless you countersue, which could fail and cost
you even bigger bucks.

Welcome to the real world.  If you don't like it, vote to change it.

c