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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (2377)	9/15/2000 7:34:53 AM
From: zbyslaw owczarczyk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3891

Alcatel's Legal Goon Squad here is response from someone who claims to be ALA employee. I think she/he got some point. Zbyslaw Re: Alcatel's Legal Goon Squad by: mermaidfeet 9/15/00 1:52 am Msg: 7627 of 7627 I am an employer and I can see the problem from the other side. Typically, a new project involves a big investment, in the belief being first to market will yield a substantial competitive edge. Employees, despite non-disclosure agreements, sometimes are not discrete, and word gets out to competition about the project. Often it is through salesmen visiting the premises, who seen to be able to read bits of paper upside down in a locked drawer with the lights off. Sometimes it is at hole 19, sometimes over a beer with school or boot buddies, sometimes a next-door neighbour (or his wife). So the competition now knows what is in the wind, but is not able, in a clean world, to catch up. But they sense the threat the new product poses. The only options are: 1. to initiate a next-generation product 2. to hire the very people developing it at the first company, and, in effect, to fraudulently induce employees of the first company to break trust and employment contract and to jump ship with the booty. It should not surprise you to learn that occasionally when the cost of development has been high and the project strategic, the person who put up the bread has the temerity to protect his intellectual property. It happens often, and some of the settlements are big and just. That you could not find a promising project to work on in Alcatel has to be a half-truth, unless you are a dentist, or you are not getting on with your boss. Posted as a reply to: Msg 7626 by mrbisfree