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Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free by iraphael on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:30PM (#10279459)
How does this work when companies have an "open" culture (aka: every employee has access to most of the codebase)? Wouldn't that meant a side project you are working on is, indirectly, a...

> Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer?

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Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free by bad_user on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:14PM (#10279724)
Even so you can only prove that by means of copyright, patents or trademarks, collectively known as "IP" laws and in spite of popular opinion, that's a hard thing to do.
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Re:Dear tech giants, if you love someone set them free by jsprogrammer on Friday September 25, 2015 @01:51PM (#10279585)
How does open access to the code base imply that side projects are work performed for an employer?
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