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Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by swarnie on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:27AM (#40944008)
If you write something at work does anything realistically stop you retaining enough person documentation / snippets to fully or partially recreate it?

My buddy Slim seems capable of it and has built up quite a portfolio of "ready to go" solutions for common problems over the years.

Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by kortilla on Friday July 12, 2024 @06:31AM (#40944270)
Your buddy Slim is gonna get sued if he’s not careful.
Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by lifeisstillgood on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:41AM (#40944064)
That’s a legal Minefield wit the law on the side of the mines.
Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by pjc50 on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:37AM (#40944054)
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2022/05/19/yahoo-lawsuit-allege...

It's a matter of degree, obviously, but every time you do this it's likely to count as IP infringement. Generic libraries? Probably nobody will ever notice or care. But if they do, it could be expensive for you.

Re:As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023) by Arch-TK on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:54AM (#40944124)
It may be expensive, but that's unlikely to be due to infringement.

Most code written by most companies has been written a thousand times already, and there is nothing illegal about recreating a library which behaves the same as something you wrote at a company.