Re:Apple Open Source
by bigbizisverywyz on Thursday December 09, 2021 @08:11AM
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>Most employment contracts are actually enslavement when it comes to IP
Note this is a mostly US perspective, e.g. AFAIK in Switzerland what you do in your own time, and with your own equipment is entirely your own under Federal law. And that seems totally fair.
Of course if you steal code or ideas from your employer, then things get a bit more grey.
Re:Apple Open Source
by denysvitali on Thursday December 09, 2021 @04:17PM
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Do you have relevant sources for this? AFAIK some Google Switzerland employees are still bound by this stupid rule (what you do in your free time, with your personal device, is still Google's property), but I would love to be proven wrong.
> Most employment contracts are actually enslavement when it comes to IP.
That's a very one-sided take. (Not commenting on Apple's policy, just commenting generally.) This great article explains why IP contracts are the way they are: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...
That's the thing - people don't have "free time". Most employment contracts are actually enslavement when it comes to IP. That's why corporations lobby governments to stop workers going B2B.