[_shadi]

> If someone interned as a doctor's assistant at a medical center and then later started their own medical center. Can their previous employer sue them for that? It's nonsense.

As I said the legality of this is not so simple to answer, yes you can intern as a doctor at one place and then open a similar one, and if someone tries file a suit about this then I think it will be very hard to find a sympathetic judge to look into it, but once you bring IP into this it becomes a lot more complicated, calculus is also about ideas, yet it didn't stop Leibniz or Newton from making accusations of plagiarizing.

>If Replit can sue this guy, then Cloud9 can sue Replit, WebStorm can sue Cloud9, Microsoft can sue WebStorm, etc, etc... Who even invented the first IDE?

the difference here is that the guy worked/interned at replit, this what moves it for me from the founder being an asshole to a grey area where he sees someone had access to all resources at the company and now wants to use that knowledge(or at least having access to it) to create an alternative and he decides to go with a heavy handed approach before it becomes a big headache, was he nice in how he went about it? no

[munchler]

> As I said the legality of this is not so simple to answer … but once you bring IP into this it becomes a lot more complicated, calculus is also about ideas,

From a legal perspective, there is no such thing as “IP”. There are copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. If you want to talk about legalities, you have to start by saying which of those four were violated. “Ideas” alone have no legal protections.

[michaelmrose]

What IP was stolen. If neither you nor the CEO can specify there is none.