Re:Ask HN: How do I legally build a remote dev team?
by GFischer on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:04PM
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It did come across as xenophobic, and as a remote developer I found it a bit insulting, although I understand where you come from.
Yes, you have to weigh the risks and rewards, and if having your app source code disseminated would break you, then I'd want a high degree of control too. I have been given quite a lot of trust in my remote jobs and I haven't breached it, but I believe the companies involved would have been able to sue (so they weren't as helpless as an individual coder), and even if I had turned out to be morally corrupt, it wasn't something where stealing it would have given me much of a material advantage anyways (enterprise code is very much tailored to fit).
Yes, you have to weigh the risks and rewards, and if having your app source code disseminated would break you, then I'd want a high degree of control too. I have been given quite a lot of trust in my remote jobs and I haven't breached it, but I believe the companies involved would have been able to sue (so they weren't as helpless as an individual coder), and even if I had turned out to be morally corrupt, it wasn't something where stealing it would have given me much of a material advantage anyways (enterprise code is very much tailored to fit).