Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
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Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#2One of the employees had his previous employers' code. There will have to be proof that Nvidia even knew about it for this to go anywhere beyond the employee.
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#3One of the employees had his previous employers' code. There will have to be proof that Nvidia even knew about it for this to go anywhere beyond the employee.
I am positive Nvidia has no part in this. A corporation of this size is severely allergic to foreign proprietary code and would not risk the lawsuit. Sounds more like this individual forgot to read the memo on IP, and the article says he was already sued by the German courts for prior misconduct anyway.
Kind of reminds me of the guys who do personal stuff on their work laptop and then get the entire company pwned. Do people not read the fucking manual anymore?
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#4> Moniruzzaman allegedly gave his personal email unauthorized access to Valeo's systems to steal "tens of thousands of files" and 6GB of source code shortly after that development.
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#5Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#6TFA makes it sound as if the entirety of the blame can be placed on one employee. Sure, his actions do seem to support that view, but then again, Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for.
There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn't aware he'd be coming with secrets. The argument that that's precisely why he was hired, OTOH, is looking very strong.
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#7TFA makes it sound as if the entirety of the blame can be placed on one employee. Sure, his actions do seem to support that view, but then again, Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for. There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn't aware he'd be coming w…
> Nvidia did hire him precisely for his previous experience at this rival company, on the very same project that the two companies were partnered on, which is the same project that Nvidia hired him for.
Yes, this happens all the time.
> There is no argument to be made that Nvidia wasn't aware he'd be coming with secrets.
This is not a logical conclusion from the above. Hiring for the exp is fine. Hiring for the trade secrets obviously is not. No serious company would do the latter, esp a company the size of Nvidia.
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#8And they will get a slap on the wrist at best. They made billions this is just peanuts.
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#9I just avoid NVIDIA because they hate Free Software, not for any other reason.
Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code
#10One of the employees had his previous employers' code. There will have to be proof that Nvidia even knew about it for this to go anywhere beyond the employee.
I am positive Nvidia has no part in this. A corporation of this size is severely allergic to foreign proprietary code and would not risk the lawsuit. Sounds more like this individual forgot to read the memo on IP, and the article says he was already sued by the German courts for prior misconduct anyway. Kind of reminds me of the guys who do personal stuff on their work laptop and then get the entire company pwned. Do…
Anymore? People have never RTFM.