OT: NDA as a Contracted Developer

[Richard Kreiss]

I gave a client who referred me to a friendly competitor to install his software on his competitor’s system. He needed to upgrade something designed for his business. 

No Non compete paper work   

Richard
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> On Sep 13, 2021, at 5:14 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
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>> On 9/13/21 4:55 PM, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Jose,
>> 
>> You did the right thing.
>> An NDA or Confidentiality Agreement should not at it’s base be constructed to restrict what we do as a profession.
>> 
>> I’ve had as many as 7 clients in the same business, some even in the same state, and was never required to sign anything.  They all knew I was discreet and professional.
> 
> I tried to reason this very point with him - I offered him a list of numbers to call and see if anyone would say I had ever failed them or broke fidutiality (well, some may say I have failed them ... to be honest).
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> Based on the overall response from everyone here, it seems that I am not alone on the way I feel about this.  Knowing that almost everyone on this list is a contractor, or has been, I could not think of a better place to post the question.
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> The only NDA and NCA I did not sign, prior to this one, was one put infront of me as I was walking out the door after having resigned my position as a Sr. Developer for a small company in Palm Beach, FL - Who asks a person to sign such thing after they quit?  Worst yet, I wrote their entire Accounting System from scrath, on my own without any assistance from any other staff member ... Looking back, I should have gone after their business but I didn't, because that is the kind of person I am, I loose sleep over a glitch in my code or a pending something I need to come up with; not over having done something wrong to a person, animal or company.
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> Jose Lerebours
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