Splunk alleges source code theft by former employee who started rival biz

Data-crunching outfit Splunk has filed a lawsuit alleging that a former employee stole its source code and used it to start a rival company. A Splunk complaint [PDF] names Clint Sharp, a former senior leader in Splunk’s product management team, as the villain of the piece after he founded a rival company called “Cribl”. “ …

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting article.

Now I know that the C in C# stands for Clint. Who knew?

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Sharp Practice

Nominutiv Determinism?

[katrinab]

I don't have any opinion on the alleged data theft, but who the hell came up with those company names?

Who buys from them?

[VoiceOfTruth]

-> Who buys from them?

Quite a few large companies. See this Reg report here (https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/12/splunk_sales_discrimination_case/) and prepare to be amazed at how much this person's earnings for a year were. Then ask yourself why you didn't become a Splunk sales bod.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Along with Dynatrace, Splunk is mandated by the central IT PHBs at the place I work. They are a bit like shovel suppliers in a gold rush.

Just today had to go looking in application logs for something - used Splunk, got a mass of results - used grep, with an equally simple set of parameters - bingo!

[Anonymous Coward]

yes, if I was copying code it wouldn't be from Splunk. The only thing they've got is scalability (and you need it because they hoover up everything).

[Michael Wojcik]

The fashion among marketing types for "vessels" – nonsense neologisms which lack existing denotations but are (supposedly) reminiscent of some positive, or at least engaging, connotations – for company names cannot end soon enough. It's the urushiol of nomenclature.

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps slightly less obvious than calling his company "I-Crib" ?

Unleash the lawyers ....

[mmccul]

Maybe reach out again for comment?

I see cribl has posted a response at https://cribl.io/blog/cribl-denies-splunk-allegations/ and I've been told they have fixed their email address for media inqueries. (No connection here with the company, I just know where to mention such things)

[MattPDev]

Apparently the source code was covered in splunk