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

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 4/8/2005, "Adrian McMenamin" <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>If you use your inside knowledge of how your company produces a widget
>to produce a better widget the company are unlikely to care on whose
>time you wrote the code for the better widget: they would still regard
>it as an infringment. Whether they could enforce it is, as you say, more
>dificult to judge. But it's not as simple as "I did it in my own time so
>therefore it belongs to me".

If you're working for a company producing widgets in a particular area
and you work on a free software project that also produces widgets in
that area, I would say you're not just infringing, you're being very
unethical.

Of course, where it gets muddy is when you're working on frameworky type
things that don't have a direct area of application but are more
generalised.  I'm not a good enough coder to ever write something so
useful, so I'm unlikely to ever have that problem 8)
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