> If you went to work on Google's new Speech Recognition, which is AI-based - it would basically be impossible not to pass on know how and relevant knowledge. The application-specific skills are basically IP.
If Nuance wants to pay me to not work for google for a long time - fine. As long as the non compete is fully paid that's fine.
Without pay from my former competitor, it must of course be completely within my rights to go to Google and develop in 1 year what took me 10 years at Nuance. That's what my experience does - helps me do the same thing quicker. That experience, and nuances "Trade Secrets" are more or less the same thing. Nuance paid me for years of failed attempts and dead ends. Google pays me (more) to not repeat them.
If Nuance wants to pay me to not work for google for a long time - fine. As long as the non compete is fully paid that's fine.
Without pay from my former competitor, it must of course be completely within my rights to go to Google and develop in 1 year what took me 10 years at Nuance. That's what my experience does - helps me do the same thing quicker. That experience, and nuances "Trade Secrets" are more or less the same thing. Nuance paid me for years of failed attempts and dead ends. Google pays me (more) to not repeat them.