Doing Open-Source Development, Anonymously?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday November 16, 2002 @03:50AM from the the-masked-coder-strikes-again dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I have some free time, and I've recently started looking into some open-source projects that I'd like to start working on. (I'm a great fan of open-source. A package that I wrote four years ago, and which shall remain un-named, is probably running on you Linux system). But I have a problem: I strongly suspect that my after-hours work might be 'frowned upon' by my employer, and although I have no contractual commitment to abstain from such work, and I will not use office-computers or anything, I realize that in these times it might get me into trouble. So I figured I'll use an assumed identity. However, in order to release copyleft software, you have to first claim copyright to it, and this is not likely to legaly hold for an assumed identity. I don't want to release to the public-domain either. So what can I do?"

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good call by DrSkwid · 2002-11-16 04:02 · Score: 2, Offtopic

but as the fortune says

Why be a man when you can be a success? -- Bertolt Brecht

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