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The thing that is kind of baffling to me about so many people in this comment section is that they think their personal opinion about the ethics of what he did has any bearing on anything. That's not how the legal system works at all.

To quote Tom Scott, a youtuber, "I'm not telling you how it should be, I'm just telling you how it is."

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Precisely. Any corporate lawyer reading this thread is probably hoping none of the engineers in their company think this way.

In my old company we were told to perform competitor analysis only through publicly available information - blogs, marketing announcements, videos, ads, etc. No creating a free account to poke around. I often wondered what happened in the past to have this rule.

All the actions here were decisions made by a private company.

At the present time the legal system is not involved beyond anything other than the terms of employment in the employee's contract.

Just because a company may have the right to fire a person at will does not prove that the employee did anything wrong. (morally or legally)

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