Anyway, my biggest question is this... doesn't Gavin get absolutely nothing out of this? Obviously, they didn't issue the ruling in this episode, but even in the judge comes down on Richard, it shouldn't matter at all. At least from what I can surmise, Pied Piper was a completely different program when he was working at Hooli. The whole middle-out thing happened after the infamous Dick Stroking Discussion in episode 10 of season 1. So, if Gavin is given the IP rights, he gets the rights to the algorithm that Richard was working on at that point, which he (or rather his employees) already stole in season 1.
Bolded will never hold up in court. There is no way a company can own something you create using your own resources on your own time.
Yeah I always wondered how that would hold up, but since I had to sign on it, it would probably have some weight. I think they just put that there to try to cover their bases. It would probably be a case by case basis as to if they'd even persue it.
If I start building stuff related to my job they could say I used work knowledge/training to do it. It's kinda like how if you work for Microsoft you're not allowed to go work for Google within a year of no longer working for Microsoft, as you could use knowledge from Microsoft at Google.
But I guess we're getting off topic, this is a fictional show here.
The whole Schrodinger's cat thing had me rolling...how they just kept applying it to everything. LMAO
"That does sound very Austrian," ...and it does.
With all their expertise why the hell did Richard have to take his laptop to a shop? They couldn't fix it on their own?
With all their expertise why the hell did Richard have to take his laptop to a shop? They couldn't fix it on their own?
Man, for a bunch of lawyers whose entire legal case rested on the "Baghead Defense", they were goddamn hawks once Ehrlich said that Richard's laptop crashed after running Nip Slip. Although, since everyone thinks we're being a little too analytical, let's look into this. An app like Nip Slip is most likely a phone app (doesn't make sense to run it on a desktop if you're trying to detect erect nipples... which seems strange to begin with ), which means Richard would've had to run it through the iOS Simulator or an Android VM (like Andy)... which most likely cannot crash your computer.
Anyway, my biggest question is this... doesn't Gavin get absolutely nothing out of this? Obviously, they didn't issue the ruling in this episode, but even in the judge comes down on Richard, it shouldn't matter at all. At least from what I can surmise, Pied Piper was a completely different program when he was working at Hooli. The whole middle-out thing happened after the infamous Dick Stroking Discussion in episode 10 of season 1. So, if Gavin is given the IP rights, he gets the rights to the algorithm that Richard was working on at that point, which he (or rather his employees) already stole in season 1.
Of course, I can't say that I'm an attorney... or an IP lawyer ... but that seems the most logical to me.
With all their expertise why the hell did Richard have to take his laptop to a shop? They couldn't fix it on their own?
hardware != software.
being a developer myself, it's annoying as shit how everyone thinks that just because you work with computers means you can fix any computer problem.
even software at the very low level can be very annoying and tough to trouble shoot. having "made" multiple hackintoshes, i've borked my laptop many times and thankfully i had a time machine backup. without that, the only other solution (other than having an expert hackintosh'er fix it) would be to reformat it, losing everything on the hdd.
Yeah but do you really think an apple store "genius" would really know much more than any of the employees at Pied Piper? Also the computer crashed due to a crappy bit of software run in an emulator, how difficult could it be to fix the computer? The people at the "Genius bar" aren't exactly going to be significantly more skilled at recovering a computer w/o formatting compared with someone like Gilfoyle or whatever.
Yeah but do you really think an apple store "genius" would really know much more than any of the employees at Pied Piper? Also the computer crashed due to a crappy bit of software run in an emulator, how difficult could it be to fix the computer? The people at the "Genius bar" aren't exactly going to be significantly more skilled at recovering a computer w/o formatting compared with someone like Gilfoyle or whatever.
The delete key does not annoy me, the apple store bothers me not a whit--but what I can not fathom is the staff's complaint about using a wired network in the house "what is this, the nineties?"
...shouldn't they be on a wired network like any kind of real real company that deals with heavy network traffic and security? Am I crazy, or were they arguing that this ancient LAN is slow and unstable compared to their glorious WiFi?
The delete key does not annoy me, the apple store bothers me not a whit--but what I can not fathom is the staff's complaint about using a wired network in the house "what is this, the nineties?"
...shouldn't they be on a wired network like any kind of real real company that deals with heavy network traffic and security? Am I crazy, or were they arguing that this ancient LAN is slow and unstable compared to their glorious WiFi?
hardware != software.
being a developer myself, it's annoying as shit how everyone thinks that just because you work with computers means you can fix any computer problem.
even software at the very low level can be very annoying and tough to trouble shoot. having "made" multiple hackintoshes, i've borked my laptop many times and thankfully i had a time machine backup. without that, the only other solution (other than having an expert hackintosh'er fix it) would be to reformat it, losing everything on the hdd.
Gilfoyle seems to be pretty hardware savvy.
ever heard of backups? Although in the show they don't know what a backup is.