Jan Wildeboer 😷
Meanwhile, over in Billionaires Fight Club, Musks lawyer has supposedly send a letter to Zuckerberg, claiming that Threads is using Twitter trade secrets as Facebook has hired ex-Twitter folks and uses their knowledge to build threads. The source for this is however a rather alarmist account, so take it with a grain of salt: https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1677035113442418688?s=20
Mario Nawfal on Twitter

“🚨BREAKING: TWITTER TO SUE META | FACEBOOK'S LITANY OF COPYCAT FAILS Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg threatening legal action, claiming that Meta hired former Twitter employees to create a clone. This isn't surprising, as Facebook's Moto has always…”

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Show threadTomatoSoupJul 7, 2023

@jwildeboer Didn't musk make the twitter code public anyway?

Why is he surprised that Meta hired the people he fired?

Show threadJack OvaltradeJul 7, 2023
@jwildeboer ahhh... These very important trade secrets, like storing and fetching 512-character strings from a database.
Show threadLog 🪵Jul 7, 2023
@jwildeboer I am no lawyer, but if a released employee has no contract, or if the employer does not pay out the severance specified in that contract, what walks out the door in their head is for sale on the open market.
Show threadEspartaJul 7, 2023

@log @jwildeboer
> what walks out the door in the head is for sale in the market.

That's not exactly correct. The employers will always have the right to protect trade secrets regardless of how the employer left the company.

A person walking out the door can always create something different using their knowledge, and if it is close or related to a trade secret, then take for sure both parties know about it because they both did sign something related to those secrets.