cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/553347
Alternative title: Musk’s X Corp. threatens to sue Meta over Twitter “copycat” Threads
Awesome. They can stay busy fighting each other while we happily go on without them over here on the fediverse.
I’m just worried this could result in a ruling that will fuck up the fediverse somehow.
Eh, I don’t think any one company can own the concept of microblogging. If Twitter and Tumblr both existed for a long time and there were no lawsuits then this is just a nothing burger, no?
Spiro’s letter complains about Meta hiring some of the many workers who were laid off or resigned from Twitter in the eight months since Musk bought the company.
“Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees… these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in the letter to Zuckerberg. The workers, he alleged, “owe ongoing obligations to Twitter,” and many “have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices.”
“We fired a bunch of people and you hired them to build the same thing they built for us! Not fair not fair!”
The workers, he alleged, “owe ongoing obligations to Twitter,”
What a strange argument. If I work for someone, and they fire me, I still have ongoing obligations to them?
Great, I’ll expect my paycheck to be deposited as usual, then.
I’m rooting for a long drawn out fight.
Wait… that sounded really american, didn’t it. Maybe I should ship lawyers to both sides.
An expensive legal campaign is yet another excuse for Twitter to go bankrupt that ignores the fact that the leveraged buyout was already a death sentence - like almost every other.
