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From: brad@gcc-bill.ARPA (Brad Parker)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Company/Employee rights to home developed MAC software
Message-ID: <255@gcc-bill.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 7-May-85 09:02:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  7 09:02:18 1985
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In article <2024@decwrl.UUCP> vantreeck@logic.DEC writes:
>...told by my manager, who has consulted with the DEC's legal department, that
>DEC owns all software that I develop at home on my MAC. And DEC has forbidden
>me to put any of my software on the ENET or any other net...
>					George Van Treeck
>					Digital Equip. Corp.

If you own the mac, and develope the software at home, and it has nothing
to do with your work (as far as ideas), I do believe that your employer
has no right to the software. If they own the mac, well, you owe them for
the use of the machine, but I still think the software is yours.

As for other companies, I'd reconcider the "nature of my relationship" with
an employee who told me my home software was his. I'd probably also
call his bluff (but then, that's me...)

-- 

J Bradford Parker
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