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franky47
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?
> moved the customer data for gas customers to his own system
That sounds highly illegal.
cootsnuck
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IT services companies / MSPs aren't illegal. I'm sure this was all detailed in a contract looked over by lawyers.
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jt2190
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I assume “customers” means
internal customers
, i.e. business units at the energy company who had come to rely on this guy’s ability to navigate the insane I.T. and actually get things done for them.
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That sounds highly illegal.