Comment by dimgl
5 years ago
Yeah this is what I'm unsure of as it steps into the legal side of things.
In general though, doesn't it make sense to not create a free competitor right after leaving your employer? They may have a case regarding stealing trade secrets given that they did give you access to their codebase and daily ops.
There’s no reasonable expectation of there being trade secrets in the repl.it source code. Trade secrets are narrowly defined and there’s mountains of case law to shed light on the specifics. If they stole a super-secret algorithm not published anywhere else or stole a list of paying customers, now that would be a problem. But any handwavy non-specific speculation is so wild as to be FUD.
Create a competitor? Maybe you should give the article a read, mkay?