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And as a hypothetical sought after employee, how is that my problem? If another company wants to roll a shit ton of money up to my doorstep, why shouldn’t I take it?

Should I be treating my employer “like family” and care about “the mission”?

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It's about the company anti-competitive behaviour. No one said anything about the employees.

The company is being “anticompetitive” by offering someone more money? Should we now make that illegal too?

Acquisitions can be considered anticompetitive. The only thing that appears to differentiate this situation from an acquisition is that the investors didn’t get paid.

Are you suggesting that the FRC should step in when a company offers employment to a large number of employees at another company? How exactly would you propose to put this into law where it doesn’t hurt the employees?

How about the fact that both companies are still healthy?

And even if you do look at this like an acquisition, acquisitions are almost always not anticompetitive.

Well, we've made other situations where companies offer people money illegal. Such as bribery, or paying someone to steal trade secrets.

And neither is alleged. It was a patent that we are discussing which by definition isn’t a trade secret.

But you are coming awfully close to advocating for non competes which is explicitly not allowed in CA.

This is the exact opposite of being anti-competitive.

This is almost farcical. This is literally the opposite of anti-competitive. Please take a basic economics course and pass it before spouting off about economics online.

As an employee you shouldn't care, but if you're someone who wants technological progress to continue, you should care whether companies with a slush fund of billions are able to bully those with less money.

Massimo did not appear to respond to Apple by trying to compete on compensation with them. The levels.fyi data is showing that they appear to pay their engineers between 140-180 while they are making hundreds of millions in profit.

It seems like Masimo wasn’t bullied because they had less money. They decided to run to the government to protect them instead of doing actual competition

You mean like the innovation that someone else here said that was denied a patent in Japan because of prior art?

We like software patents now?

I skimmed this and it doesn't look like a software patent to me. It's a giant long description of the hardware.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/

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