Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em...
by johnasmith on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:19AM
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I work for a company you've heard of, and that's their policy.
_However_, if I had a side project I wanted to work on, I can get clearance to pursue it, so long as it doesn't compete with any of the company's ventures. It's a straightforward process, not a big deal at all.
They're just trying to get ahead of/avoid potential ambiguous IP ownership situations.
_However_, if I had a side project I wanted to work on, I can get clearance to pursue it, so long as it doesn't compete with any of the company's ventures. It's a straightforward process, not a big deal at all.
They're just trying to get ahead of/avoid potential ambiguous IP ownership situations.