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One of my first companies put a clause in to say that they owned the code you wrote in your spare time. I peaced out too.
So glad to live in California where that type of shit is explicitly illegal. Open source software would be so fucked with how much software is produced here.
It’s explicitly illegal in California? I’ve never heard that before.
California has a lot of laws that stops corps from pulling shit, the corps usually leave it in their employee contracts as a scare tactic though. Non-competes for example are illegal, the reasoning os that most arguements for it are already covered by corporate espionage laws. It also fucks over the worker 9/10.
In large part because at least some portion of California lawmakers knows their history well enough to be aware that all of Silicon Valley is a thing in the first place because people were able to leave and take their ideas with them and start something new.
A huge portion of the value of Silicon Valley today can still be traced back to when the “Traitorous Eight” left Shockley Semiconductor to form Fairchild in 1957, and build tech based on what they’d learnt at Shockley, with many of them then going on to leave Fairchild and found further new companies. The outcome of that among many others resulted in both Intel and AMD, and the same pattern has repeated many times.
Makes sense, I wasnt actually aware of that. But then again im from the Inland Empire so the goings on of the coastal cities makes me want to lobotomize myself.
I don’t know why you guys are like that, it’s wonderful out here.
Most of us are chill with San Diego, its just LA and San Francisco that are annoying. LA cause they dont know how to drive and think their the only part of SoCal, and San Francisco cause of yuppies and being up their own ass.
That’s meaningless if you don’t use their equipment to do it. If you make a sandwich, do they own it? A table? A child? A novel? A painting?
Only the first born. You get to keep the rest.
One of the companies I worked for put into their employment agreement language that stated they owned all the code I had written before starting work for them. It was the most hilarious overreach I’ve ever seen in an employment agreement - but then companies can put literally anything they want into the agreements, and they aren’t worth shit anyway.
I told them this was utterly ridiculous and edited the agreement to remove this and some other nonsense before signing it, and they hired me anyway.
I’m pretty sure this is illegal even in the US.
edit: shit, it depends on the State?!
Repeat for every labor issue
I had one tried that, I crossed it out before signing… it’s total BS.
Why would they do that?
I’d be lying if I said I knew for sure.
It was a software consulting place.