Yeah, that's what I've been gathering, but the boss says they need one, and I'd rather do a bit of work now than potentially get into a battle down the road. Load of bureaucratic BS, but such is life.
--- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.756.8080 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:39 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: legal issues > > > Not sure about the legal situation in the US, but in Canada most lawyers > will tell ya non-compete agreements are just expensive pieces of > paper...easily fought if need be....just too many ways of reading > them...too > many gray areas > > Cheers > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > t. 250.920.8830 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Macromedia Associate Partner > www.macromedia.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group > Founder & Director > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barney Boisvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:21 AM > Subject: legal issues > > > > My company recently spawned off from a parent company, and > we're drafting > a > > non-compete agreement and looking for some insight as to wording. We > found > > a couple generic agreements, and they used such remarkably > vague terms as > > "... the Employee shall not own, manage, operate, consult to or be > employed > > in a business substantially similar to the present or future business of > the > > Company ..." > > > > I don't have a particular problem with signing an appropriate > non-compete, > > and my employer wants to ensure the agreement is suitable for all > concerned, > > which is very nice, so there is some flexability. > > > > The company develops a web-based communications management tool that is > > licensed and hosted ASP-style (Application Service Provider, not Active > > Server Pages ;). As well as doing all development, we do all the sales > and > > support services. My concern is that any web app could be > construed as a > > web-based communications management tool, especially anything > that's not a > > basic web site (an email newsletter with web-based authoring, for > example), > > so the definition of "competition" needs a fairly high degree of > precision. > > > > I'm sure there are people out there who've fought this battle > before, and > I > > was wondering if any of you had some insight, or even some sample > language. > > > > thanks, > > barneyb > > > > --- > > Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer > > AudienceCentral > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > voice : 360.756.8080 x12 > > fax : 360.647.5351 > > > > www.audiencecentral.com > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.500 / Virus Database: 298 - Release Date: 7/10/2003 > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
