Comment by wernercd
5 years ago
"Prior invention" He created Riju AFTER working as an intern at Repl.it. From the article:
> I worked for Replit in Summer 2019
Also from the article, regarding Riju commits:
> 2020-06-05 df9ba38 Initial commit
"I can understand" to a degree. That's what time-limited non-competes are for. I think a lot depends on what he signed as he was hired and/or leaving Repl.it - was there a "you can't work for a competitor for x years" type document? Was there something worse?
And that's not talking about the fact that some states bar non-competes and it was over a year after he left repl.it, what's the odds his non-compete was for that long?
We obviously have one side of the story - and we know how he said/she said stories end up - but from what's being told, it seems like he's been away for long enough that non-compete to be flimsy at best and unenforceable at worst.
I'm not thinking so much about non compete, I'm thinking about copyright violation or trade secrets (even though it's not the most stunning tech here). I specifically see this commit message:
> repl.it superiority!!
It's weird to have that commit message and then to claim Riju is unrelated and not a clone of Repl.it.
That read very tongue in cheek to me. It'd be akin to creating a microblogging platform in a weekend without any production-ready engineering, yet claiming superiority over Twitter on a commit bumping the post limit to 560 characters.
And then having Twitter threatening to sue.
Exactly, there might be one little feature that surpasses another project and then claim you are better. This is always a tongue in cheap moment and a time to bask in the glory of ones leet skills.
It is explained