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Maybe the facts will bear out that there’s a case here, but my default position is one of skepticism. I guess one takeaway for me is if you don’t want your competitor to hire a bunch of your former employees, don’t make a bunch of your employees former employees.
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IANAL > Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.” > He also alleged that Meta assigned those employees to develop “Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta’s co…
I wouldn’t be surprised if part of Zuck’s goal with the Spider-Man meme was to prod Elon directly into this lawsuit which will surely go nowhere, cost pocket change to Meta, and push Twitter that much closer to bankruptcy. I don’t care much for either of these guys but you gotta love seeing a guy’s own toxic personality traits used against him. Looks like Zuck’s jiu jitsu training is paying off after all!
Under-the-hood, I assume Meta was able to launch this quickly because it's largely built on existing tech.
Anyway, sounds petty and short-sighted. So. Totally on-brand!
Maybe the facts will bear out that there’s a case here, but my default position is one of skepticism. I guess one takeaway for me is if you don’t want your competitor to hire a bunch of your former employees, don’t make a bunch of your employees former employees.
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But this is Meta, millions of people will join regardless. The content will generate itself. There is no need for bootstrapping with stolen content, nor any insight to gain from analyzing twitter's content patterns.
And if they were faced with a slow start, a tiny banner on instagram or facebook would convert hundreds of millions of users in a matter of days.
Isn't Threads just Instagram with optional text posts? Same old proprietary obfuscated mess, locked garden, meh, no thanks.
> locked garden Not to defend Meta, but this isn't true. Meta is embracing the fediverse protocol with Threads.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"