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Saw a headline:

Twitter accuses Meta of hiring former staff in cease-and-desist order

Well, maybe you shouldn't have fucking fired them all, then. 🙄

Sorry Elon, that's the way tech works. You fire people for no good reason and they go find new jobs, often doing basically the same thing only, for one of your competitors. That's kinda the way it works. Thanks to California labor laws, there's nothing you can do about that. Unless someone took the Twitter source code with them on a thumb drive, it's all in the clear.

Unless you can prove they literally copied code or are violating a patent, it's 100% okay for them to re-implement the same idea for someone else. In fact, every one of those engineers probably has a laundry list of technical debt they hate and things they'd like to do better next time around. They're probably all reveling at the opportunity to start fresh and "do it right this time" or at least avoid some old mistakes.

You don't get to fire all the people with all the knowledge and then claim Facebook stole it because they hired the people you didn't think were important enough to get paychecks. Knowledge is valuable, code isn't. You're a fool who threw away their most valuable asset.

Note: this is not an endorsement of Threads in any way. I expect it to be a catastrophic failure and have no interest in joining the platform. It's just that musk is an idiot. 🙄