When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
My first instinct is to congratulate Shred for standing up to the big bully. That was really almost what I posted.<p>But pick apart Shred's note, and really it's an emotional appeal based on two ideas:<p>1. That the sole test of stealing ideas is source code that has been copied verbatim.<p>2. That the only possible secrets of Smule are features implemented in released products.<p>These are pretty weak legs to stand on. They're actually preposterous.<p>Lawyers will tell you that it's really hard to prove theft in court without a smoking gun like "stolen source code", and the chances are, if they've stolen ideas in other ways, they will probably get away with it.<p>Almost certainly, Shred's lawyers are playing a key strategy role in this PR campaign.<p>So my advice is to be wary of emotional appeals from either side of litigation. We don't know what happened, and we learn less than we think from these notes.<p>ps. Yes I read the remarks in Business Insider too. I'm not advocating that Smule is the innocent party here. Most likely this is some bullshit pissing contest with 0 innocent parties.