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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by londons_explore on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:51AM (#13922664)
"It's worth $1B. Still want to buy it from me?"
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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by AIMunchkin on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:12AM (#13922863)
"But for you, I like the cut of your jib, $100M."
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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by bluejekyll on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:08AM (#13922836)
I don't see a problem with this. If you put a price on that work, and they meet that price, seems like an equitable exchange.
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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by iamatworknow on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:11PM (#13923570)
But if they paid you that much for your IP, would you still work for them?
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Re:GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects ... by bluejekyll on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:09PM (#13924128)
Well, at least for the payout period, assuming it wasn't all given in a one time payment.

Otherwise, it of course depends on what they're doing. It might be really interesting work that you get the chance to work with a lot of other very brilliant people to build something amazing.

If that's not true, then no, I'd probably go and start just writing fun open-source stuff all the time.

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