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  • Subject: RE: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?
  • From: Lurton Keel <LKeel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:53:10 -0500

Take the discussion outside of programming context and it makes more sense.
If I hire someone to build a garage on my property, does the contractor or
any worker have any right to the garage? No (as long as I pay the bill).
I work in a manufacturing environment, so do any of the welders have any
right to the product that they build? No. 
On the other hand, the IE's that work here, as well as the managers,
supervisors and programmers get paid $1 (confidentiality agreement) up front
for all the intellectual and other inventions they may devise.  Even if they
do it in their home workshop, it is still the property of the company.


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