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- From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LINUX, Unix, and opportunity for change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.132911.211@camaro.uucp>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:29:11 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.170143.5265@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> <1992Dec19.173951.12503@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec27.232450.26745@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec27.232450.26745@netcom.com> messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
- >
- >>mleech@bnr.ca (Marcus Leech) writes:
- >>>
- >>>Were it not for the fact that I have a job where everything I create is
- >>> owned by my employer, I'd be as busy as Linus; contributing, rather
- >>> than just pontificating. [Though it's certainly not unheard-of around
- >>> here to be able to release freeware, just rather rare].
- >
- >>Did you actually sign a contract that gives them rights to code you cut
- >>at home during off hours? If so, I'm quite amazed. Perhaps I'm just
- >>naive, but this sounds like a form of slavery. I hope they pay you a
- >>king's ransom.
- >
- >That is actually a common practice in many companies. Of course, you may
- >argue that court might not uphold such broad definition. Nevertheless,
- >I have seen it in contracts (and have singed at least one).
-
- Your right, I have had to sign two contracts like this, one was with IBM
- Canada, any code that was written during employment, and even two years
- afterwords (Good luck making that stick IBM) was considered IBM property,
- and this did not have a single defination of code, just quite broad. So I
- agree that a court would probably throw it out, unless you tried to release
- a program which was exactly what you were working at at your employer.
-
- Another small company I worked for pulled the same thing, but at least
- they didn't have the two years afterword thing...
-
- My present employer, only holds rights to code specific to my job
- applications, and I didn't have to sign anything this time. Needless
- to say, I'm much happier :)
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