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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.
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- IBM SUES TO SILENCE FORMER EMPLOYEE
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- 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 ....
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- 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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