Re:Show HN: I founded a company and a platform to fund open ...
by em-bee on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:45AM
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because working 5 hours a week on your pet project vs working 40 hours on it is a big difference.
if the project is under a Free Software license, who cares who actually owns the copyright? you can still use the code. sure, ownership does make some difference, but that's a tradeoff i am willing to make.
also, if you start the project on your own and get hired by a company later, they will only own the portion of the code that you wrote after you joined them. you still own everything you created before that point, so if they want to do anything with the code that violates the license, they still have to ask your permission, and if you don't agree, you can still jump ship at that point, and you are no worse off than before taking the job.
if the project is under a Free Software license, who cares who actually owns the copyright? you can still use the code. sure, ownership does make some difference, but that's a tradeoff i am willing to make.
also, if you start the project on your own and get hired by a company later, they will only own the portion of the code that you wrote after you joined them. you still own everything you created before that point, so if they want to do anything with the code that violates the license, they still have to ask your permission, and if you don't agree, you can still jump ship at that point, and you are no worse off than before taking the job.