QUINTUSPUBLIUS

says>"How much is that IP worth if a significant number of your employees decide to leave to work on a product in the same space, because you can't do it right?"

Let me rephrase that for you (with a mind toward a court case):

" How much is that IP worth if a significant number of your employees decide to leave to work on a product in the same space, because, while working for Cisco/Webex, they worked out all the bugs and now know how to write the software right?"

Nail in the fscking coffin, Dude! Cisco is going to own Zoom (literally and figuratively).

this is old news:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200618/blood-type-could-im...

and on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I've always hoped that something, anything, would kill SPIN studios. Seems my prayers has been miraculously granted albeit at a high cost for many.

Still, all in all, worth it: SPIN studios are bad loud music blasted out by a-holes in hard-walled rooms with 20 expensive largely unoccupied single-purpose SPINcycles and doors open (so "they can breathe"), polluting the entire gym with their noise (as well as COVID-19 apparently).

Screw 'em and melt down those SPINcycles into something useful, like paperclips.

Perhaps this time hospitals won't listen to the governor when he orders emergency rooms to send COVID-19 patients to nursing homes?

OTOH most of those nursing home patients are Republicans, so who cares - move 'em quick, so they're dead before they can vote.

FTFA:

"After he left, 40 of the 800 engineers he worked with immediately joined him at Zoom.

And according to this tweet, almost all of the others sent in resumes to work with him. He had something like 1000 job inquiries within a week of announcing his leaving.

Talk about engineering loyalty."

No, let's talk about Intellectual property(IP):

How much does Zoom's software differ from Cisco/Webex? If Yuan got 40 developers overnight from Cisco/Webex and more later, how much IP did they bring to Zoom from Cisco/Webex? Should Cisco/Webex sue Zoom for IP theft? I don't see how such a lawsuit could fail.