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Does Your Employer Own Your Thoughts?

Posted by timothy on from the don't-answer-that-out-loud dept.

MJ writes "Evan Brown has finally lost his 7 year court battle over ownership of thoughts in his brain. Judge Henderson of the 219th District Court in Collin County, Texas granted DSC Communications Corporation, Inc (now Alcatel, USA) a Final Judgement granting DSC ownership of Mr. Brown's idea of a reverse compiler that Mr. Brown claims to have begun formulating twelve years before his employment at DSC and during his off-time while at DSC. Mr. Brown has received media coverage in print, televion and on the Internet: The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law, Wired, Computerworld. This rings similar to previous Slashdot articles on employer/employee IP rights."

6 of 758 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Missing option: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please choose "taco's wife" instead.

  2. bizna#tc4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ixrc.secsup.org or gave the BSD For successful Lay down paper 1. Therefore it's of various BSD

  3. Re:Say it isn't so by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's called a paycheque, fuckstick.

  4. Re:He shouldn't have signed the contract. by jkabbe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is this going to hinge on the definition of "developed"? Does develop mean "created from scratch" or simply "improved upon"? While I generally think of the former while working on code, the latter seems to be better supported in the dictionary.

  5. Re:Say it isn't so by earlytime · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So you're a monk right? Surviving solely on the fruits of your own labor, spending every free moment to contemplate the nature of man, and the path to enlightenment.

    STFU you hypocrite. How'd you get the money for a computer? Nevermind that somebody is paying for your internet access. It's called capitalism, it actually works, and its the least wrong idea we've come up with so far. If you don't have a beter idea, then stop mooching and start working.

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  6. Re:Sadly, yes... by maximilln · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I entirely agree. So don't sign the contract!!

    However high and mighty you might be due to the fact that you're legally correct...

    You're still a fucking dumbass.

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