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Re:Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers by ghostpepper on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @11:25AM (#22935737)
I am not a lawyer but my guess is their fear (no idea how plausible) would be a situation where an employee creates an open source project and uses it at work in a way where it becomes critical to the business, then later leaves the company and demands some sort of royalties/licensing
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Re:Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers by megous on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:39PM (#22939608)
If it's opensource under the usual OSS licenses, the former emplpyee can only demand something for further work/improvements, not for already existing code.

And companies typically have no trouble critically relying on OSS projects they have no chance of forking/maintaining if something changes that they can't accept.

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