[Gllug] "Open source has its own problems" - article inComputing

[Morris, Simon]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 15:50 +0100, Rob Crowther wrote:

> Intellectual Property - he states that all work done when in full time
> employment, whether at work or at home on personal time, is property
> of
> the employer, the natural conclusion of this is that most OSS is
> actually stolen from people's employers.

I've heard about (and boggled at) this concept before... it seems
outrageous that things I work on in my own time could be property of my
employer.

What if I paint beautiful works of art in water colour in my own time?
Is this now property of my employer? Why is writing code any different?

What if I don't work in a IT capacity for my employer but I write Open
Source software.. is this still property of my employer.

Any examples of this standing up in court?

Thanks

~sm
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