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except he was being paid a monthly salary and cashing checks which didn't bounce -- those are a form of documentation. Not to say I don't think he got screwed,
by mkramlich 16y ago
except he was being paid a monthly salary and cashing checks which didn't bounce -- those are a form of documentation. Not to say I don't think he got screwed, because it sounds like he did. but i disagree that he necessarily owned all the code he wrote. because he was getting paid cash regularly for it.
- cookiecaper 16y agoIt would depend on the copyright laws in Holland at the time. I don't know that anyone here is sufficiently well-versed to determine that.
- jacquesm 16y agoI am and there is some truth to it, there were enough witnesses to the deal that I could have probably done that, and possibly would have prevailed. Don't forget that I was not the only person that got screwed out of his share, another key point would have been that my 'take home' was well below market rates, and that - until 'Fred' stripped out my name - there was a copyright notice in my name in the code and that I had about 500 subdirectories with backups of the code as it was developed (I didn't have any real version control). But frankly I didn't care enough about it to put that much negative energy in to it, court cases are extremely hard on the system. I simply chalked it up to experience and enjoyed my new project, which was building a very large scale message switch using QnX, it was my first experience in networked computers using message passing and a completely new world. The contrast with the other company was remarkable in every which way and Jan (the guy that owned the new place) and I are still friends today. The funny thing is that a couple of years later I employed him for a bit!
- mkramlich 16y agogood point. I forgot it was Holland.