@mmasnick "Elon Musk is not only stranger than we think, he is stranger than we CAN think."

-- Werner Heisenberg, probably.

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#Bluesky, which directly competes with Twitter, has hired Twitter employees & all 3 Board members worked at Twitter. Bluesky has plainly been using Twitter IP, trade secrets & confidential information to accelerate its development. The attraction to its users is that it is basically a copycat clone of Twitter - but Musk has never made a peep about it. And never will.

That should tell perceptive journalists & observers something very important about Bluesky

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Interesting that X claims that the employees, they fired, continue to have obligations to Twitter, beyond intellectual property protections, especially when you think about how intellectual property really works in the software development industry.

Also keep in mind that courts have ruled that non-compete clauses are unlawful and unenforceable.

@mmasnick My favorite part is “these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”

Like, Twitter, whose fault would that be? Twitter, did you *mean* to say that you never cut off these former employees’ access to Twitter’s internal systems? Because that’s basically what you just said there, Twitter.

@mmasnick Can you even sue over trade secrets? I thought they had no legal protection, it's on you to keep them. That's the whole point of patents, to add legal protections for inventions.

But yeah, fire a bunch of your employees, don't be surprised if they take jobs elsewhere.

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File it, nutter.

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Almost makes me want to create a Threads account.