[Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company
- From: amachu@xxxxxxxxxx (ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M)
- Date: Wed Dec 3 15:23:27 2008
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Vamsee Kanakala <vamlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's tough to convince otherwise when you're coming from that point of view.
Why do you think investors only exploit? They spot an opportunity, and they
put in money to exploit the opportunity, not the people. If some exploit
people in that pursuit, you have to blame that particular individual, not
investors in general. It's possible to do business ethically, you know :).
The first argument of mine is substantiated by the argument that
followed and your reply holds good if the agreement between the
employee and employer aren't the typical proprietary ones. It that
agreement is a typical proprietary one, that asks the employee to
surrender everything, then the system which encourages that need to be
blamed. If that's the system the investor chooses to follow? (May be I
can express better in Tamil, if this is unclear)
At least in mine, all code that gets done for clients is closed, and the
clients have full rights over it, and all code that gets contributed back to
FOSS projects is open. And it's done on the company's dime. We just stick an
MIT licence to it. Actually, there are plenty of startups that work this
way.
Agreeable. But that's not what I asked for. I would like to now "Are
Employee - Employer agreement different in a FOSS company compared to
that of a Proprietary Company?, If so How? and on What aspects?"
--
Sri Ramadoss M
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