fshean

I think the premise is flawed simply because the writer says when am I allowed to quit and not be labelled a quitter? Frankly never because if you quit you are a quitter. However, the scenario you postulate could be quitting but it could simply be recognizing that the startup will not achieve it's goals and that it should wind down and return any remaining funds to it's investors (or try to sell itself) that's not quitting it's just being realistic.

1) Yes - We said no because the source code is an embodiment of our trade secrets and the basis of our company but we'd be happy to answer your questions.

2) Likely they aren't trying to "steal" you IP. They stated their goal as them want to see how your algorithms made their decisions. So just answer as best as you can without giving away your trade secrets.

3) Yes, there is a way to do this with legal protection. Which would be to follow a clean room process. However, this is pretty expensive for a small company to do. So I wouldn't offer it.

Actually according to the US Bureau of Labor there were 340,000 jobs lost in the auto industry from 2007 to 2009. So it's actually a net loss of 110,000.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2011/04/art5full.pdf

This is for the US. In fact it is the US Postal Service version of the service.

https://moversguide.usps.com/icoa/move-info/icoa-main-flow.d...

Actually no it doesn't. Copyright is a legal concept enforced by laws of various countries and different countries have different laws.

Assuming they met all the other conditions of becoming a pilot.

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforcejoin/ss/afpilot.htm#s...