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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

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Post by pierat »

david-gpu wrote: post #102
dctoedt wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The concept/idea is not what is patented. The patent is (or should be) for the specific execution of the idea. Competitors are free to implement their feature using methods other that what is covered by the patent, even if the end result gives the exact same functionality. IP lawyer here (EDIT: not yours, of course): That's a considerable (and potentially-dangerous) oversimplification. What matters is whether what…

At some point I was told to never ever look at a competitor's patents, because doing so would worsen the penalties if it turned out that our design infringed upon them. Can you confirm that's true? Doesn't that mean that in general it is also a really bad idea to ask an engineer questions about a particular piece of tech that they patented at a previous employer, even though the specific information is a matter of pu…

Just search it in Yandex with a VPN, and in a Tails VM just for paranoid-icity.

I did similar for medical self-symptom before ACA prevented "pre-existing condition" scam.

Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Post by jampekka »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #63
szundi wrote: post #33

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Stupidity in this case probably means low level employees cheating for benefits and career Nvidia can get out of this fairly low cost then Who knows

>Stupidity in this case probably means low level employees cheating for benefits and career That's most likely the case here. FFS, the guy stole 6GB of proprietary data and police found the stolen design files pinned on his wall at home, so the guy was fully committed to his scammer role, and not just an accidental "oopsie I walked out with some proprietary IP by mistake, better discard it and keep this low key so no…

Why do you deem the guy is most likely a Bluecard and how is it relevant?

Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Post by zer00eyz »

whatshisface wrote: post #86
throwaway914 wrote: post #80

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In theory, one can memorize a great deal.. I do agree with you, though.

Memorizing a sizable fraction of Windows source code so you can take it to Apple sounds like the most pointless and difficult heist imaginable!

This sounds like the plot to a Netflix movie...

Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Post by jampekka »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #103
anthk wrote: post #100

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By that name it could be a modern Spaniard, French or German fully assimilated to the culture. Specially if he was born there.

>fully assimilated to the culture The culture of stealing IP from your employer?

Would be relatively tame compared to what kinds of actions the German culture is quite easy to associate with.

Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Post by [deleted] »

jampekka wrote: post #112
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Stupidity in this case probably means low level employees cheating for benefits and career That's most likely the case here. FFS, the guy stole 6GB of proprietary data and police found the stolen design files pinned on his wall at home, so the guy was fully committed to his scammer role, and not just an accidental "oopsie I walked out with some proprietary IP by mistake, better discard it and keep this low key so no…

Why do you deem the guy is most likely a Bluecard and how is it relevant?

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Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

jampekka wrote: post #114
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>fully assimilated to the culture The culture of stealing IP from your employer?

Would be relatively tame compared to what kinds of actions the German culture is quite easy to associate with.

Like? Socks in sandals?

Re: Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Post by edgyquant »

clnq wrote: post #12

This often happens ingenuously, not out of calculated ill intent. Coders will keep code snippets and thoughts in personal knowledge tools like Notion, and then reuse them in different companies. Or contractors will straight up copy and paste code from source files of projects they worked on for different companies, thinking "I wrote it, so I could write it again, but why bother?", or something along those lines. Peop…

>Coders will keep code snippets and thoughts in personal knowledge tools like Notion,

Do they? I’ve never personally done such a thing, though I may keep some code in public GitHub repos. I’ve rewritten quite a bit of the same logic at most places I’ve worked over the years.

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