RE: What are a programmer's rights to what he writes?

[endre enyedy <e_enyedy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:47 PM 5/23/00 -0600, Nathan M. Andelin  wrote:
>..............  Part of the reason for this is because under common
>law the employer-employee relationship is characterized as a master-servant
>relationship.  The servant does the work, the master owns the property.
>Does this sound a little like slavery?
>
And the "servant" gets paid.

And, anytime, he can quit, give up slavery -and salary- and he is free
to become a "master", as so nicely you put it.


If memory does not play tricks, being a slave was not an elective 
option....slaves were owed and had no personal rights...

EndreE
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