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paxys on July 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

The thing is these employees could have come in and directly used all the "knowledge and competency" they learned at Twitter to build Threads and it would still be 100% legal. There is a very high bar to proving whether any of it is actually a trade secret.

bagels on July 6, 2023 [–]

I think we're in agreement here. The general shape of how to build Twitter isn't a trade secret at this point. Copy-pasting source code is.

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