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TSMC formally sues ex-SVP over alleged transfer of secrets to Intel

It is not actually *your code* in the first place, is it ? It is the property of whoever paid you to create it. The fact that you'd like to keep a copy does not give you the right to steal it (permanently taking something without permission or the intention to return it, regardless of whether you make any use of it - at least under UK law). If you walk away and recreate it from memory that's completely different. The "residual knowledge" that you keep within your head is yours to keep.

Also bear in mind that any code you remove may be commercially sensitive or wholly or partially owned by someone other than your previous employer.

This really isn't difficult to understand.
Do you even understand how software works? The software remains property of the company and the company keeps using and profiting from it. I don't. No harm done. I am not using this code for anything but refreshing my memory about the things I've done. "permanently taking something without permission or the intention to return it" clearly refers to something material. You are just about one step away from allowing the companies to erase the memory of the employees leaving them.
 
Do you even understand how software works? The software remains property of the company and the company keeps using and profiting from it. I don't. No harm done. I am not using this code for anything but refreshing my memory about the things I've done. "permanently taking something without permission or the intention to return it" clearly refers to something material. You are just about one step away from allowing the companies to erase the memory of the employees leaving them.
Was the code flagged as proprietary information by your employer?
 
Was the code flagged as proprietary information by your employer?
Never heard of such thing. Although it may simply mean that they all assume it by default. In any case, it is obviously possible for one to use the code one developed in unlawful ways: for example to use it wholesale to create a competing commercial product. I am not talking about such scenarios.
 
Never heard of such thing. Although it may simply mean that they all assume it by default. In any case, it is obviously possible for one to use the code one developed in unlawful ways: for example to use it wholesale to create a competing commercial product. I am not talking about such scenarios.
Understand, fwiw many larger corporations (especially Defense) will require that even code be marked as appropriate (not just email or documents) - export controlled, proprietary information, financial markings, etc. (of course how the markings are included and audited differ by company).

Copying code marked proprietary, even for "personal use" would be a clear legal problem for the individual who left work with the code.
 
Raiding his house is one thing but seizing stock seems to be next level of escalation.
Also, from the article: "In a statement, the Taiwan prosecutors' intellectual property branch said Lo is suspected of violating Taiwan's National Security Act." Taiwan invoking National Security Act to persecute US citizen (I assume he is) might backfire, especially with current US administration.
 
That’s one point of view. But what about the people here who say that most people in Taiwan would support independence—given that the large-scale recalls of KMT-elected officials ended in a major failure? Do they call their own views “shit,” then?

If Taiwan doesn’t have the capability to defend itself, it should stop pretending and dragging other countries into the mess.

The nuclear argument is somewhat valid, given the recent actions of the Japanese leadership.

 
Translation of the article title:

Su Chi urges Taiwan’s three major parties to save themselves and negotiate peace with the mainland: Taiwan isn’t valuable to the United States and will be sold off cheaply.


 
Are you serious? I am a software designer and I have all the code that I developed in my life regardless of who I was working for. Are you going to tell me I can't take it with me? You sound like you know what was in those boxes. You do not. In general, one can never be 100% sure about anything.
No. The software code is company's assets.
You can rewrite it in new company, but not copy it with you.
 
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