Comments on: NDAs: Fear and Shame http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame A traveling geek's blog on development, games, and the web Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:51:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Bremner http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame/comment-page-1#comment-251 David Bremner Mon, 15 May 2006 02:54:01 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame#comment-251 Last year the Washington state Supreme Court changed the requirements for noncompete agreements. An employee must receive some benefit for signing one other than continued employment.

]]> By: Eric http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame/comment-page-1#comment-227 Eric Thu, 11 May 2006 20:09:13 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame#comment-227 Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from VCs – they never sign NDAs. Actually, I don’t mind NDAs – it is the non-competes that kill me – and I refuse to sign those now.

]]> By: Peter Fein http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame/comment-page-1#comment-224 Peter Fein Thu, 11 May 2006 14:42:15 +0000 http://push.cx/2006/ndas-fear-and-shame#comment-224 Hmm, that may be true, but the main reason for a NDA is legal protection, after the fact.

It’s an unfortunate, necessary measure for protecting trade secrets/IP that can’t/shouldn’t be patented. It’s also far cheaper than a patent, but weaker in some ways.

I’ve signed an NDA at every job I’ve ever had since college, in both finance and software, and probably all the way back to high school. Oh, except for that job at the public library.

Doing so has had zero impact on my ability to do my job, or find another one. Though it does make it hard to explain what you do to your mom. ;(

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