Make a deal with competitors. Contact your major competitors in the region and agree to not head-hunt their programmers if they don’t touch yours.
Because the worst thing that’ll happen is there’ll be a class action lawsuit that will take years to settle and cost you much, much less than actually competing for programmers.
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Because the worst thing that’ll happen is there’ll be a class action lawsuit that will take years to settle and cost you much, much less than actually competing for programmers.