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From: royt@gitpyr.UUCP (Roy M. Turner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Company/Employee rights to home developed MAC software
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 00:48:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 00:48:14 1985
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Well, I don't know what their policies are now, but when I worked
for IBM about 4 years ago, their policies about home developed
software were basically the same as DEC's...nice to know that big
blue isn't the only paranoid company in the world!  :-)

The reason they gave us was that although IBM had no interest in
microcomputer software (as I said, this has been a while ago!), still
your programs might reflect techniques learned while working for IBM.
Yeah, if what you're thinking is what I think you're thinking, that
was my opinion, too...*MOOO!*

Again, this was some time ago, so IBM's policies might have changed...
I know they were encouraging employees to write software for the PC
when it came out, but then, that is a tad different!

Roy
-- 
The above opinions aren't necessarily those of etc, etc...but they
should be!!

Roy Turner
(a transplanted Kentucky hillbilly)
School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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