> Yeah, many of us did exactly that back in 2007/2008. We nominated and worked hard to promote and to get elected a politician we believed -- based on our candidate's deeply-persuasive statements -- who would be "different". We did much more than vote. We built amazing software systems for our candidate, went door-to-door in places that almost got us shot, worked 80 hour weeks at the grass roots level, and in some cases estranged ourselves from our families. And of course we voted for him.
There are separate laws protecting IP directly, so you don't need a non-compete to do that any more than you do to protect company physical property. And specific restrictions on the use of proprietary information that isn't IP in the strict sense are often enforceable when non-competes (provision prohibiting someone from working in a particular field or capacity) are not.
There are separate laws protecting IP directly, so you don't need a non-compete to do that any more than you do to protect company physical property. And specific restrictions on the use of proprietary information that isn't IP in the strict sense are often enforceable when non-competes (provision prohibiting someone from working in a particular field or capacity) are not.