@JenniferWeb
I'm not sure what planet you live on, but on the one called "Earth" we have these things called legally binding documents. And when a person signs one of these things, they legally promise to abide by whatever they just signed their name to. Now, if they DON'T want to abide by the conditions of the agreement, they don't sign. And if they do sign and change their mind, hard luck.
I'm no fan of HP, nor of their treatment of Mr Hurd. However, Mr Hurd legally bound himself in a standard "restraint of trade" agreement (which all the rest of us have to live by if we sign them), so therefore HP has every right to clobber him. And in fact, they should: Mr Hurd is legally in breach of a very important document whose negation has serious ethical and financial ramifications.
Just because Mr Hurd was crapped on by HP does not give him some bleeding-heart-liberal reason to nullify his legal obligations. Are you a bleeding-heart-liberal, 'JenniferWeb', or do you believe that we are all equal before the law and should be held accountable for the legal promises we make? Feelings have no place in this discussion, just the facts... ma'am.
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