[katie hunter]

Originally Posted by Barcham

I find that surprising. Here in Canada, non-compete clauses are common in the IT realm. I have signed many in my lifetime and generally they include a clause that states any product design based on the intellectual property or product line of the former employer within 'X' years becomes the property of the previous employer. I have always found that to be a reasonable term of a contract. But the law is the law and it there have been precedents set, you have to live with them.



I don't consider that to be opportunistic, I consider it to be good business sense and a smart move. If you are skilled in a certain thing and you know what you can put on the market, and you know that you can do so legally and above board, I see nothing wrong with doing so. If you find yourself in a dead end, where you have no room for growth or advancement and the conditions of employment have deteriorated to be not in your favour, there is nothing wrong with branching out on your own. Without such 'opportunists', technology would have ground to a halt decades ago.

I still think their forums are very poorly moderated and more like a kindergarten than a place for adult discussion, however. And that does reflect poorly on the company as a whole in my eyes.

I wouldn't call them this if they didn't had to resort to bashing and drag the entire Vbulletin community into sympathizing with them when they knew that what they have done would result in a litigation against them, they surely expect it. They also didn't honor the position they were in, they made living from VB for 9 years, as well as gaining fame, and when they had the chance to leave and make XF, they bash it and aimed to split the VB community through their excessive criticize of VB 5.x. Them criticizing VB 5.x to show how XF would be better, is a disgusting move on their behalf.

And now they resort not only to bashing by allowing their community to bash VB constantly, but for their staff to bully and censor as well and they don't even apologize or revise their actions. In my eyes they are unprofessional and their action should be pointed and judged so they can learn that what they did and keep doing is wrong and unprofessional.

Not the type of company i would be proud of. Certainly they lack good communication skills and they've revealed that they don't hold good principles and manners. They obviously didn't like what i say about them on VB and decided to keep the restriction on my profile, they see my comments as troublesome to them and that is why they are insecure.



My conversation with them through tickets, is like running around in a circle, they keep throwing words just to justify their action, and after back and forth for a while i had to ask myself, what is this, is this a company with different level of management or just a regular website selling a product.