[justapassenger]

> hinders skilled individuals from switching between companies and spreading innovation

This is gross misrepresentation of what happened. It’s not some smart, lone engineer leaving for competition and bringing some good ideas from previous employees with him.

It’s an executive (with a technical background, but still), paid insane amount of money, deciding to steal majority of trade secrets for an unreleased product, developed by thousands of people, just so he can sell it to a competitor for an obscene amount of money.

It’s not a little guy vs big corp. It’s a greedy and ruthless executive vs corporation.

[jocker12]

He was no executive. According to his wiki page he "was a technical lead until 2016".

[justapassenger]

Being tech lead of something as big as self driving effort at google is being an executive.

It’s not reviewing pull requests and being nit picky about code quality. It’s running a huge org.