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From: goran@erix.UUCP (Goeran Baage)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Company/Employee rights to home developed MAC software
Message-ID: <833@erix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 11:06:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 11:06:19 1985
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Reply-To: goran@erix.UUCP (G|ran B}ge)
Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <2024@decwrl.UUCP> vantreeck@logic.DEC writes:
>
>     I work for Digital Equip. Corp. as a software engineer. I have been
>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. I guess this means
>no free MAC software from DEC employees, and very likely no MAC software from
>DEC employess period!
>
Is this really true or is it a joke? It seems very strange to me that
DEC has any rights to things you develop at home (I assume it is your
own MAC). Are you slaves over there? US, the land of freedom ??????
I havn't checked with our legal departement at ERICSSON and I 
don't intend to, but I am fairly shure that ERICSSON has no rights to 
things I develop in my own free time.

   Goeran Baage

PS If you "develop" children at home, are they owned by DEC? :-)