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Monthly Archive for August, 2008

California Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses

Good news for all CouchSurfing volunteers who signed the non-disclosure agreement: the California Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses.  Since it seems as if the organization has moved on to San Francisco it would be even harder to enforce anyone breaking the non-compete clause, although Matt Whatley seems to have been aware of issues with the non-compete clause in California.

still extremely negative

No more extremes? CS updated their reference system, following examples by other hospitality networks. This is not the only change that had been implemented during the latest Alaska CS collective. In fact, a whole lot of bugs have been tackled [ 12345 ]. Weird though that, according to this post in the brainstorm group, it took over a year (!) to repair the translation tool, with the result that “lots of people have turned their back to the project.” Now, that’s what you can call volunteer-empowerment.