Yet again the government tramples it's citizens freedom and desires and tells THEM how to live. Doesn't matter if this drug helps countless people across the country function in their day-to-day.
Here's hoping he stashed some cash and can make a clean getaway. 50 years is what they want to charge him with for copyright infringement, ludicrous. Rapists get a fraction of the time.
Looks great. A lot better then that lame kickstarter bait n switch. If they are going to do that kickstarter they need to demo the model they are going to sell.
Cannabis is not some terrible thing that turns people into thieves and low-lives. Plenty of the people you interact with every day (and likely have pleasant interactions with) use these substances. Perhaps some of this is location based, as I know on the west coast the general consensus is that people don't give a damn. Every single person I know has a friend or family member that smokes, often times successful and happy people, and it's not a big deal if they do or they don't. Public sentiment is changing every day and I truly believe that in the next 20-40 years cannabis prohibition will be a thing of the past just like alcohol prohibition.
One question for you - which do you think causes more health and addiction problems for people in the US ? Cannabis ? Or alcohol and prescription medications ?
As long as people can come to work and work efficiently and with a good attitude what they do on their own time is their own business. Depending on weight and tolerance, a half a bottle of vodka a day isn't that much at all to some people.
Could they just have people sign non-competes perhaps? If you want to work there, it's just part of the package. Seems like a fair trade off to me, and everything is above ground.
I'm not a lawyer, but I believe non-compete clauses in employment contracts are not legal in California.
Restrictions against non-complete clauses and against forcing employees to assign all intellectual property to employers (even from personal projects) are part of what makes Silicon Valley what it is.
I think non-competes must be enforceable in California since I've been slapped with one while working for a CA-based company. That said, I suspect that they're not easily enforceable or frequently enforced.
It seems to me that the idea behind this was not fundamentally price-fixing but eliminating the kind of disruption to projects (and inevitable leakage of ideas and technology) you'd get from having people hopping around from company to company. Price fixing may well have figured into it, but I doubt it was the main reason.
"Veridian does love its money." Veronica (Better Off Ted)
Not a fair trade, and impossible to enforce. There's plenty of case law saying that a non-compete that prevents a person from making a living in his profession is null and void.
Apple and Google could be argued to be "competitors for talent", but if you work on one product at Apple and move to Google and work on something different, there's no state in the country that would consider that a violation of a non-competition agreement. To my knowledge, non-competes are only successfully enforced over trade secrets and client lists.
Seems a bit pretentious saying the domain 'can't be priced' while shutting everything down at the same time. He's gonna take his ball and put it in some closet for eternity, and it sounds like he doesn't really care if anybody else wants to play with it. Yes, this is his 'right', it's also pretty lame.
That's exactly what I'm trying to say. He is leaving his Lift community to do something new and doesn't intend to do the hosting work anymore. That's completely acceptable.
What makes me confused is his determination to prevent anyone else from taking over the service he doesn't want to do anymore and basically forces everyone to rewrite massive amounts of documentation, package names, source code, maven xml files, build files, etc. for no real gain.
