Re:Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers
by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:07PM
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Just because you can't physically strike a clause from an electronic contract doesn't mean it's not negotiable. Email the company back and say "let's chat about paragraph such-and-such, because I have the following concerns," or something to that effect.
Re:Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers
by imron on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:06PM
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Right, but surely there is a person at the company that you can bring it up with?
I've been working remotely for nearly a decade now, and the majority of contracts I've signed have been in electronic form, and for each of them there has been back and forth about certain items - IP and copyright in particular always coming up - and we go back and forth until the wording and meaning is something both parties are happy with.
Only once that's happened do I need to sign the electronic form - and that's where the negotiating leverage exists, because I don't need to work for someone if they impose conditions on me that I am not willing to accept.
Practically impossible with companies moving to electronic forms. I've found every electronic form presented to me has had less than zero ability to actually negotiate with the other party.