Re:Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the...
by mcny on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:44PM
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Is this for anything at all? What if, hypothetically, I want to try out some concepts in angular material to learn? Would I need sign off just to put that in a public gitlab repo (because I get free uncapped CI minutes if it is public). At some point the code should be obvious and silly, right? I mean I’m not doing anything novel here, just learning stuff. It has no commercial value.
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Re:Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the...
by tomlu on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:12PM
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You can do whatever you want if it has no commercial value. Google would not bother asserting their rights because your experiments will not grow into a competitor they would care about.
This is for serious side ventures, like you creating a self driving car company on the side. Use common sense, fault on the side of disclosure, and you'll be alright.
Re:Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the...
by kettro on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:10PM
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you still have to get approval. But the approval is pretty rubber-stampy - my buddy applied for "tasking rtos in rust", which was accepted, despite that being incredibly general.
The other side is that "if it is so trivial, why upload it?".