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420:

--- Quote ---3.  don't tell people what to do
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Wait, this is one of those mind tricks right? Like if I say, "Everything I say is a lie."

-420

Throbblefoot:
Regardless of xfire's claim, it looks like there is a very solid legal argument behind the suit: technology you invent for your employer belongs to your employer, not to you.  
Check out the Game Spot article
For those of you too lazy to read the link, two telling quotes:


--- Quote ---Gottlieb and Kirmse were employed by Yahoo! when they developed certain technologies for a game-specific variation on Yahoo!'s popular Yahoo! Messenger.
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and

--- Quote ---Key to the complaint is Chris Kirmse, now Xfire's vice president of engineering. Yahoo! claims that "after Kirmse joined defendant [Xfire], defendant began to develop, test, and offer instant messenger 'client'
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If you steal a laptop from your office, you're stealing technology. If you steal a design you created on company time, you're stealing technology.

-Throbblefoot

Anheg:

--- Quote ---Ha

Gmail pwns you with 2.5GB Free email.
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I dont feel like reading all this, but Mo is correct. Gmail pwns. If anyone wants a gmail invite PM me your current address and ill send you an invite.

Mo:

--- Quote ---Regardless of xfire's claim, it looks like there is a very solid legal argument behind the suit: technology you invent for your employer belongs to your employer, not to you. 
Check out the Game Spot article
For those of you too lazy to read the link, two telling quotes:
and

If you steal a laptop from your office, you're stealing technology. If you steal a design you created on company time, you're stealing technology.

-Throbblefoot
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oooooooooh Xfire peeps were former employees of Yahoo...Red Alert!

They are going to be OWNED.  That's a twist I didn't know, now the lawsuite makes sense.  Trade secrets are very sensitive obviously, and Yahoo must have extensive clauses in they employment contracts to protect all their resources.

Soul Sojourner:

--- Quote ---i said it on GodSpire and i'll say it here. khad, you're blowing this waaay out of proportion.

1.  stop babbling
2.  stop using your stupid argument against yahoo, no one cares
3.  don't tell people what to do
-Elessar
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LMAO, so you're telling him not to tell him what to do, I think 420 is right, that is most definately a mind trick of some sort.

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