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Originally Posted by Graybeard  I have worked in similar situations. However, my experience is that the employer has many reasons for what you describe.
Security of their own software, viruses, time spent not on their product. I work for Honeywell and the rule is simple. Whatever you develop, however you develop, while you are in their employ .... it belongs to them.
If you wish to work on your own project, in your own time, you must notify them of this prior to commencement, and it must not contain any conflict of interest. Otherwise they can say that they have as much legal right to it as you.
If you think about it, this is not so unfair. How else to protect copyright and ensure that the labourer is worhty of his hire. While you may think your own project is yours, how often do you think about it while you are at work ? How often do we use their ideas that we have learnt while gainfully employed, to test our own ideas ?
will check the new thread
cool bananas ... greg |
I had a disclosure of my work on their inventions agreement. There never was an issue of me working on my things while on their time. I also never intended to do anything for them where I did not leave them the source code. The systems that I wanted to use VP was on isolated mobile systems. There problem as it turned out was that they did not have anyone that could follow my code. They would need to get a programmer from Denmark, Germany or Sweden. As these were the people that were using Prolog.