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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by kelnos on Saturday December 04, 2010 @05:56PM (#1970397)
That said, given their relationship with the web, it's hard to say that any web related tech doesn't compete with them in some fashion.

... which is really the problem. Google can claim that anything web-related that an employee of theirs does on their own time to be sufficiently related to their business as to assert ownership. And that's not cool.

Just because a company has done good things for the community, it doesn't give them a free pass to do bad things to its employees.

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Re:"Google asserts copyright, even on work I do in my own ti... by ori_b on Saturday December 04, 2010 @06:18PM (#1970445)
As stated above "We have a process for releasing under your own copyright, but it is not as flexible.".

I think that's entirely fair - if you're a Google employee contributing to a project that might potentially compete with Google, I don't see a problem with Google asking you to get permission.

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