simple@lemm.ee to LinkedinLunaticsEnglish · 1 year agoI will NOT protect your company secrets. Also you should hire me.gcdnb.pbrd.coimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down127file-text
arrow-up1126arrow-down1imageI will NOT protect your company secrets. Also you should hire me.gcdnb.pbrd.cosimple@lemm.ee to LinkedinLunaticsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
NDAs just get in the way man, I want to be able to just leak all sorts of company secrets without any nagging from HR.
minus-squaretabarnaskilinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 year agoGotta live the “ideas are cheap” stance when you know how much money some patents can be worth.
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoYeah, but there’s a substantial number of people arguing that patents are over-issued, over-broad, and protection probably lasts too long - especially for software patents. See the Apple/Samsung “scroll bounce” litigation.
minus-squareBizarroland@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoHowever, that implies that you have a patent and getting a patent costs between $5000 and $10,000 if you’re lucky and it’s a simple patent.
Gotta live the “ideas are cheap” stance when you know how much money some patents can be worth.
Yeah, but there’s a substantial number of people arguing that patents are over-issued, over-broad, and protection probably lasts too long - especially for software patents.
See the Apple/Samsung “scroll bounce” litigation.
However, that implies that you have a patent and getting a patent costs between $5000 and $10,000 if you’re lucky and it’s a simple patent.