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Properly Contributing to Open Source While on Company Time?

Posted by Cliff on from the avoiding-the-SCOrn-of-your-superiors-isn't-a-WASTE-of-time dept.

egeorge asks: "I was wondering what kind of paperwork/policies developers have at their jobs concerning contribution to open source projects. I develop software at a company that derives almost its entire revenue from software. Some software is licensed to customers, some is run internally in a service model, but the software is our whole business. We have recently been doing more and more modification and customization of open source products, and we would love to give some of this back. As developers, though, some of us are a little hesitant to just start flinging code that technically still belongs to the company out into the world. We want to make sure we get clarification about what is or is not covered by our NDAs. So, what kind of procedures do other developers have to go through to get adequate coverage for Open Source submissions? I would like to suggest a policy to my superiors, and could use a few good suggestions."

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  1. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    W00t. what?

  2. Off Topic--FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is it that there are no other posts? Aren;t there any subscribers reading early? I'll save my money.

  3. My thoughts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Open source is dead. Stop writing these crap programs. No one cares.

    Long Live the architect!

    1. Re:My thoughts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You fool, it's "The Aarchitect". Get it right for once.

      --

      Long live The Aarchitect!

  4. Company time is just that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see subject
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  5. Ashcroft wants Patriot Act widened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ashcroft wants Patriot Act widened
    Testimony follows House concerns about lawâ(TM)s impact

    ASSOCIATED PRESS
    WASHINGTON, June 5 â" Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress Thursday to widen the USA Patriot Act so that suspected terrorists can be held indefinitely before trials and to let him seek the death penalty or life imprisonment for any terrorist act. The controversial law gave the U.S. government broad powers to use wiretaps, electronic and computer eavesdropping and searches and access to financial data when it investigates terrorist activities.

  6. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This first post is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

  7. Re:Simply put: I don't. by dreamchaser · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Even being a used care salesman is better than being an asshat troll like yourself.

    There are some very bad consultants out there, yes. There are also some very skilled ones who are worth every penny that they charge.

    There I go again...feeding the trolls...