Vodacom Please Call Me battle - Knott-Craig gives his full story

Disgusting behaviour, these top dogs are nothing more than thieves getting mega rich on the backs of hard working people.
This employee should be rewarded simple as that.
 
I am still trying to understand the basis of the claim. As far as I understand Nkosana Makate was an employee at the time. Was there some kind of employment incentive plan in the contract? I am no legal expert but as far as I understand that ideas you develop while in the employ of a company, and you do it on the company clock - then that idea belongs to the company. They don't necessarily own whats in your head -- but if even part of the process was done in the company then they can have a legal claim to it as far as I understand?

Otherwise people would quit companies left, right and center during the late phases of product development!

But I do not have all the facts... the entire case seem really really strange to me....
 
If you come with an idea for a product which is related to your job, that's one thing but if it's unrelated to your position, than it's not clear cut.
 
Sounds like something Steve Jobs (AKC) would do. Overhear an idea from colleague, tell them how crap it is and a week later tell everyone what brilliant idea he just thought off!!
 
Let that greedy Vodacon pay this Makate out, instead of wasting 100's of thousands on legal firms. Let AKC work on fulfilling his promise that the Cell C network would be "perfect" end of November. We all know that he's beating around the bush, being disingenuous, to say it diplomatically. Let's move one, indeed a storm in a teacup.
 
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