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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
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Subject: Re: Rigid Mac Programmer's Employee Agreement - Help!!
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Date: 10 Jun 89 20:31:25 GMT
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I am no expert on these matters but my impression is that these agreements
are typical or at least common.  I signed one of these last year when I worked
for a bit and it worked out fine.  I wanted to make sure that some shareware
stuff I was working on was excluded so I mentioned it.  They asked what it
related to, saw it was no problem, and then I listed my projects in a certain
section.  They also let me start any other of my own projects I wanted to as
long as they didn't relate to the job.  You should check with your company
though since some aren't so nice.

Interestingly, my project manager left our company to work for a competing
company in the same area.  He was restricted, of course, from not talking
about our company at all for a year.  In fact, I think the other company has
him placed on a project that is not in competition with our R&D department.
I'm not so sure if this is the case anymore.  A few of you reading this know
who I'm talking about (since we also lost quite a few software engineers to
this other company).  I sure don't want to own a software company and have to
worry about this stuff.

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