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>> Wait - you mean if somebody is in a contract, it's not necessarily
>> enforcible?
>
> Generally, in civilized countries, there are things you can't put into a
> contract and have enforced. You can write them in, but you can't get the
> government to force you to obey them.
Does this mean that all that M$ stuff about "we technically own your PC
now and you can't stop us doing anything we want to it" is not actually
legally binding?
Suddenly EULAs take on a whole different hue...
(E.g., presumably you can't write an EULA that says in the small print
"by using this software you agree to surrender your first-born child to
us". Or rather, you *can*, it just won't mean squat.)
> For example, in California (since we're so big on start-ups), if I
> create something on my own time with my own money and equipment, it
> belongs to me even *if* it's *directly* in competition with the employer
> I was working for.
>
> In Pennsylvania (where I grew up), the company was allowed to keep you
> from working for any competitor that sold the same thing to the same
> customers for something like 6 months or a year or so.
Interesting.
I wonder how any of this applies to the UK. Hmm, Phil would know!
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