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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!qualix!compassion!dshaker
- From: dshaker@qualix.com (Doug Shaker)
- Subject: Re: LINUX, Unix, and opportunity for change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.204007.5739@qualix.com>
- Sender: usenet@qualix.com
- Reply-To: dshaker@qualix.com
- Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec27.232450.26745@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:40:07 GMT
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- in california, if you write it on your equipment during your own hours,
- and using your own ideas (i.e., you don't use your employer's trade
- secrets), then it is yours, no matter what your contract says.
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- In article 26745@netcom.com, messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
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- >>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).
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- >t.
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