The same year this was written, I received a contract to sign right in the middle of work. Oh oopsie! We meant to have you sign this before getting started! It

The same year this was written, I received a contract to sign right in the middle of work. Oh oopsie! We meant to have you sign this before getting started! It was not an ordinary one page bi-directional NDA, or terms of service, or non-compete. It was a five page sprawling pile of crap: me indemnifying a multi-billion dollar company, a non-compete worded in a way that on strict reading I'd have no other customers, they own all IP conceived, produced, or derived. I redlined pretty much four pages of the five page contract, and sent it back. That triggered an hour with their in-house lawyer were I proceeded to call the contract idiotic nonsense. Basically it was an hour of me saying, go fuck yourselves, because the contract wouldn't have let me say fucking sue me. It would have let me say uncle no matter what. It was that much of a one-way contract. In retrospect, upon receiving the contract, it's clear it was gross incompetency and also possibly intended to scuttle the work in-progress and take ownership of what had been produced so far. It was a vindictive contract. What I should have done, is publish the work with a sane research/education license (non-commercial), and published this stupid contract and outed the company and thrown them under the goddamn bus for trying to push me under one first. Dicks. 6 years later and that's what I regret not doing.