Implicit assumption? The first paragraph of the TechCrunch article says:
Uber admitted today that it had found one of the documents Waymo alleges was stolen by a former employee — who left its self-driving car effort to join Uber’s — on the employee’s personal computer.The other day I booted my old galaxy s3 to put a new ROM on it and turn it into a dashcam. I found on it that google drive had offline backed-up some documents from a company I had worked at several years ago, and no longer did. Should I be sued for trade secret theft?
>Waymo says he took 14,000 documents, while Kshirsagar and Radu Raduta took only a few. Waymo is now asking for Uber to turn over those stolen documents as part of the discovery process
My understanding is that part of the case is deciding if it is true that 14,000 documents were taken.
So again, the only known truth is that a single document was found on a guy's device.
What I am concerned with is that we all fall into the "Uber BAD, Waymo GOOD" trap simply because Waymo is kicking up a big shitstorm. Let the process of law happen, let the facts of the case arise, before we pass judgement.
That is not a rhetorical question - I'm pretty sure you're capable of distinguishing the facts of the Waymo case[1] from "some documents ...[from] several years ago".
So, why?
[1] Meetings and other shady activity before quitting, logs of ~14k documents pulled, immediate aqui-hire, etc. etc. etc.
Unless I am mistaken, all that I have read indicates that the 14k doc pull is a part of Waymo's accusation, AKA unproven. The immediate aqui-hire etc could just be a slimy poach.
This is such a classic justice tale I'm sure it's memorialized in fable. You get accused of witchcraft: well that's weird, you sure have a lot of herbs around, huh? (bay leaves and garlic) What's that giant kettle for? (making soup. With bay leaves and garlic) Etc. The mere accusation can turn normal things into another incriminating "fact" when that is just not the case.