RE: [Leica] Kindermann Canada camrea servicing

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

It's not at all unethical to solicit another company's employees.  It
happens in high-tech all the time - that's how head-hunters make their
living.  What is illegal is for the recruited employees to take confidential
company information with them.

Sometimes high-tech companies will set up "no-poaching" agreements with
other companies, especially those that have been started by previous
employees of the target company - the strong personal contacts the poachers
have into the target company can make their advances predatory.  But even
then, if the poaching company is non-competing (or can claim they are), such
an agreement can be hard to obtain.  In the absence of such an agreement,
all's fair in love and business.

Paul Chefurka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Franklin [mailto:austin@darkroom.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:53 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Kindermann Canada camrea servicing
> 
> 
> >  Apparently the new Leica Distributor in Canada tried to 
> have him switch
> > job from Kindermann.  He refused.  Other technicians were also
> > unsuccesfully approached.
> 
> I believe in the US there are laws about soliciting people 'in this 
> manner'.  Usually, there are agreements in place that 
> prohibit this.  If 
> the technician wanted to contact the new distributor, that is 
> certainly OK 
> in my book, but for the new distributor to solicit them, I 
> believe, is 
> unethical.
> 
> JMHO
> 
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