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

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,

With all due respect, for an employee to be "equal" they must equally
share all risks.  Including costs.

So, in the "employee's are the equal to contractors" theme, have your
employer rent you your desk space, you pay your own medical, when you
log on you pay for the machine time, you share in your usage of air
conditioning, pay for your parking space, pay for the availability of a
phone, fax, modem, and another warm body to exchange ideas with. Oh, did
you go to the employee's lunch room? Did you leave a tip? How about the
janitorial service that dusted your desk? How about the security company
that monitors your place of work to safeguard your (oops, it's not
really yours is it, unless you paid for it) equipment?

What I hear is a whole bunch of sour grapes about someone who believes
that they have marketable skills but lacks the backbone to stand on
their own.

Get a business license and get over it.  Or acknowledge that you need a
big daddy.

"Nathan M. Andelin" wrote:
> 
> Doug, I'd better reply to this one,
> 
> >>While I appreciate where you are coming from,...
> 
> Most people can appreciate the fact that although employees are just as
> bright, highly-educated, skillful, trained, and potentially as creative as
> their independent contractor counterparts - their rights under the law are
> vastly inferior.  My proposal would make them equal.
>
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