<html><head></head><body>Yeah. Nothing I do counts as "prior art". If the license prohibits sharing, I use something else.<br><br>Sharing is caring.<br>Proprietary is for the dumpster.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 2, 2022 9:53:55 AM EDT, Jerald Sheets <jerald.sheets@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I love it when employers try and take my stuff and I tell them “you can’t have that”. They point to their clause, and I point to my source material’s Apache2, BSD or GPL licensing. They ask what is unique, and I say “absolutely nothing”. “not even the order I put the components that are prior art in.”<br><br>Much hand-wringing ensues.<br><br>—j<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On May 1, 2022, at 9:00 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><br>I've been lucky in only having one non-compete clause. <br><br>I like my uncle's take on it. When the corp lawyers wanted a signed exclusivity form claiming that due to his exposure at work, anything he invented outside of work belonged to work. He looked at them and said "Let me get this straight. Because of of your exposure to me, anything invented at your work belongs to me."<br></blockquote><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>