[ale] [OT] Self-study for hiring bullets?

[Jim Kinney]

Yeah. Nothing I do counts as "prior art". If the license prohibits sharing, I use something else.

Sharing is caring.
Proprietary is for the dumpster.

On May 2, 2022 9:53:55 AM EDT, Jerald Sheets <jerald.sheets at gmail.com> wrote:
>I love it when employers try and take my stuff and I tell them “you
>can’t have that”.  They point to their clause, and I point to my source
>material’s Apache2, BSD or GPL licensing.  They ask what is unique, and
>I say “absolutely nothing”.  “not even the order I put the components
>that are prior art in.”
>
>Much hand-wringing ensues.
>
>—j
>
>> On May 1, 2022, at 9:00 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I've been lucky in only having one non-compete clause. 
>> 
>> I like my uncle's take on it. When the corp lawyers wanted a signed
>exclusivity form claiming that due to his exposure at work, anything he
>invented outside of work belonged to work. He looked at them and said
>"Let me get this straight. Because of of your exposure to me, anything
>invented at your work belongs to me."

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