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TearAbite
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| Re: New Apple hire Mark Papermaster must stop working said by The Dv8or  :How do you prevent your top developers from going to competitors with your biggest secrets then? Is Apple really a top competitor of IBM ? | |
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The Dv8or
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| Re: New Apple hire Mark Papermaster must stop working If you dont sign contracts, as Dolemite is opposed to, whats to stop AMD's top developers from going to Intel with AMD's latest development secrets? It goes far beyond Apple and IBM.
And while I don't think IBM is the TOP competitor to Apple, I definitely think they are competitors. IBM sells entry and mid level servers, as well as powerful workstations, which match up well to the Xserve and Mac Pro.
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26
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| Re: New Apple hire Mark Papermaster must stop working said by The Dv8or :If you dont sign contracts, as Dolemite is opposed to, whats to stop AMD's top developers from going to Intel with AMD's latest development secrets? It goes far beyond Apple and IBM. Nothing.
I see nothing wrong with an enforceable NDA; if you sign one, and are paid, then you should honor it. I believe that's what hush money is all about.
That being said, NDA's usually support the utter bowl-splatter that is ultimately the failed marketing concept known as the free market. Apple's NDA/SDK with the app store is a perfect example. Off topic, granted, but it goes to the core of why there are NDAs.
Just sayin ...
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Shadow01
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| said by The Dv8or :If you dont sign contracts, as Dolemite is opposed to, whats to stop AMD's top developers from going to Intel with AMD's latest development secrets? It goes far beyond Apple and IBM. How about paying them what it takes to get them to stay? | |
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join:2003-07-28
Topeka, KS
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| Re: New Apple hire Mark Papermaster must stop working said by Shadow01 :How about paying them what it takes to get them to stay? Paying them to stay means nothing if they were working as a contracted hire. If the terms that say the contract is up, then unless they renegotiate, you don't work for them any more. If the work you were there to do is done, then there's no reason to contract again.
Simply put: NCAs are in place to keep you from taking all the knowledge one company hired you for, to another company - who can take advantage of the fact that all the kinks have been worked out already.
Also - non-competes usually also have a non-disclosure.
And since Papermaster is an exec, he has a bit more insight on the inner workings of IBM. While the same methods probably wouldn't work at Apple, sometimes knowing HOW your competition does things is almost as important as knowing WHAT they're doing. Which is why you'll notice on a lot of internal company documents the legalese that states that "this document is property of so-and-so and any use outside the company is prohibited"
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