![]() If, however, he is using his work computer, work time or doing the same thing HE is doing at work, then he doen’t have much of a choice. The point I was making was that if he isn’t using company resources, isn’t using company time and isn’t doing something that is the same as his function at work (same type of project), the law allows him to develop software in his free time. They may not be MS, but they’ve got a solid $4 billion in the bank.” Unless much of this app was developed on company time, they should have offered to just buy the code from him - they can afford it. Or if he was developing this app on company time. Also, I don’t think any of you know what this programmer’s contract with Apple says. “Well in this case he was developing an app that did something very similar to what Sherlock does, except Sherlock doesn’t support this web site (yet). Quite simply, what apple is doing is reprehensible and pretty much illegal (as long as he developed all of the app at home and on his own dime). ![]() How do you people think that all these open source projects get written? Do you really think that all these people don’t have jobs? If what you said was true, then there would be literally thousands of companies claiming ownership of different parts of Linux and other open source projects through this same “clause”. However, if I go home and use my machine and my time and I write an elaborate ebook engine of some sort, that is MINE, not theirs. ![]() If, however, you wrote the app on your time, with your machines and for your business (which has to be unrelated to your job function), then they have no right to that code.įor instance, if I am a software developer writing flight simulators for work and I go home and write an open source flight simulator, I am asking for trouble. If any of these things were met, it belongs to them (per the contract you probably signed). ![]() Yes, we developers signed something saying the company owns what we develop…on their dime…and with their resources…and for their business. ![]()
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