An anonymous poster 'The ABKCO Thieves' writes in about new hire paperwork.
I recently started work at a well-known e-commerce business, which is a great opportunity for me. Only after I started did I find out the full inventions, NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement), non-poaching, and work-for-hire agreement is onerous. It treats any work of authorship during my employment as their property, even if done on my own time and equipment. I can't post the agreement because it would identify the company, and potentially me as well.
Earlier this year I began contributing code to a GPL v2 project that has existed for more than a decade. I want to continue to do so, but how can I without risking "contamination" of it thanks to this agreement? Part of my goal in contributing is to have real live code I can point to, so going under the radar defeats that purpose.
Are these sorts of intellectual property agreements common?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @10:14AM
You mean it's not on Netflix?
Why bother with Netflix?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=watch+reign+of+fire+2002 [duckduckgo.com]
Right, sorry, you can't just watch streaming video for free by searching for title and year, that never works. Torrents are the only way because torrents! Torrents!
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:13PM
Free is relative and some of those "free" streaming sights either want too much information or try to talk you into a CC number. I have had some luck with Putlocker, but some of the alternative links for live streaming got real sketchy with me.
The more things change, the more they look the same