From the article: > As long as the work isn’t related to GitHub’s own “existing or prospective” products and services, the employee owns it. It's strange this

From the article: > As long as the work isn’t related to GitHub’s own “existing or prospective” products and services, the employee owns it. It's strange this statement isn't getting much attention. This sounds like one of those catch-all type of clauses which allows Github to go in any direction they want and potentially still claim your work is their IP in the future. I'd have to read the contract to be sure, of course. Whether they would do that is another matter. Probably not. Maybe another company that adopts similar policies would though. If you're going to be building a company while working at another, I think it's more safe to just use your own time and property so there is definitely no claim (assuming your contract doesn't have one of those nasty clauses saying the company owns everything you work on while employed with them).