[Wondercow]

bdkennedy1 said:

He signed a contract. The judge agrees. End of story.

Preliminarily and temporarily he agrees; the final verdict isn't in yet. And that doesn't change the fact that your arguments are full of holes.

[Wondercow]

KPO said:

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Evidently IBM thought that a one-year non-compete was long enough to satisfy its concerns about employees defecting to competitors and stay within the bounds of applicable contract law. That was the deal, so that's all that really matters.

I don't disagree with the facts, I somewhat disagree with the decision, and I completely disagree with bdkennedy1 's arguments and the "logic" used to support them.

[amacd]

When I was working at IBM we developed the "Minnow" file, which was the 8 inch floppy. Shugart was the head of the development team and quit IBM and took most of the team with him to start up Shugart, Inc. And what did Shugart make? Floppy drives. That move set us back about 6 months. Now do you wonder why they make us sign an agreement like that? One year is enough to take the bloom off the product. Many industries do this when a company sells out as well, an example is a boat building company that sells out and is constrained from building boats for a year. Tillotson-Pearson is one example. If he didn't like it he had the option at the time of not signing the agreement and going off to work for someone else at that time. To not honor his agreement is dishonest.

[mianesva]

Hopefully these will help educate folks on IBM as an innovative company:
Innovation @ IBM
http://domino.watson...ages/index.html
IBM Research
http://www.research....m/know/top.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/
IBM's History and timeline
http://www-03.ibm.co...tory_intro.html

[tawjedi]

1991 "Apple Computer Inc. and IBM announce in October a series of agreements which include Motorola Inc. as a technology partner. The agreements include: products to link Apple Macintosh personal computers into IBM networks; new Reduced Instruction Set Computer microprocessors for personal computers and low-cost workstations; a new open-systems environment in which both IBM AIX and Macintosh software programs can run on RISC-based systems from both companies; a joint venture to create and license multimedia technologies for a wide range of companies and industries; and an independent, jointly-owned company to develop object-oriented software, a building block for developing applications."

Apple split up with IBM. Because of what they what them to do and they didn't what to do that crap. Because if they did it at that time the software would be the nothing but crap.