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0 pointslll-o-lll2y ago0 comments

Worse than that, many companies have clauses that indicate that any software you write (regardless of whether for the company or not), belongs to them. I don’t know if this would hold up in court, but it’s there in the contract.

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fiddlerwoaroof2y ago

In California, at least, this is illegal unless the code competes with the company's products.

harles2y ago

It’s pretty hard not to overlap with big tech companies. Everything has been touched internally.

My understanding is the same though. Unfortunately whether a clause is legal or not may matter little - you’ll run out of cash for legal bills before they do. The best defense is probably just that most companies don’t care about your side projects.

lmeyerov2y ago

If you wrote it w company resources, eg, work laptop or work internet, my understanding is that the company has a strong claim to it

oddmiral2y ago

All your codebase are belong to us.

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