Doing Open-Source Development, Anonymously?

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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liars! hypocritical liars!

[Anonymous Coward]

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a friend and i were in the library at school checking out the site like all loyal /. fans do when we ran across this. im sure this isnt new...but it was hte first time ive noticed it. for a very left-wing anti-microsoft (bill gets is a fucking borg for heavensake)site, they sell out pretty easily. i was so dissapointed. its one thing to need to pay your bills and maybe have a little extra cash...but to undermine your core principals, the very foundation that your project is built on...thats just pathetic. even if you decide that ads are necessary, most of us can come to terms with that, but why microsoft? why undermine your purpose and value? needless to say i am very dissapointed. (btw...all ms advocate fags who are going to critisize my argument by making my misspellings obvious, get a fuckign clue and realize that my bad grammar/spelling doesnt change the fact of the truth. that being you suck.)

good call

[DrSkwid]

but as the fortune says

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