Re:I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others ...
by PragmaticPulp on Monday September 05, 2022 @10:50PM
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> I find that unlikely. What if you were instead handing it to an employee?
> (Also, different NDAs are... different, it's pretty tough to talk about them all in general and expect a statement to be true.)
If you sign a contract that says you're not going to share the company's code and then you share the company's code, you've violated the NDA. It's as simple as that.
Being a contractor doesn't grant someone magical immunity to the contracts they've signed. At most, the employee could argue that the contract made them a full-time employee and sue for benefits and such. They can't, however, simply ignore contractual obligations that they've agreed to.
Re:I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others ...
by trasz on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @05:05AM
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Contractual obligations that go against the law are void. And it means that indeed, you are supposed to just ignore them.
Re:I patched my Slack client to keep “oops” messages others ...
by CogitoCogito on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:39AM
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Are you claiming that this specific contractual obligation is against the law?
I find that unlikely. What if you were instead handing it to an employee?
(Also, different NDAs are... different, it's pretty tough to talk about them all in general and expect a statement to be true.)
> So no, the law doesn't automatically allow engineering contractors to do whatever they want with the work.
Yes, it does. Just because you might have terms in a contract prohibiting it doesn't mean the law prohibits it.