This is one of two reasons why I work for a small company, and also why I left another small company when it was acquired by a large company -- CA 2870 only off

This is one of two reasons why I work for a small company, and also why I left another small company when it was acquired by a large company -- CA 2870 only offers meaningful protection when your employer isn't active in the relevant field of endeavor. I don't want to compete with my employer, I just want to write some sound software on my own time and to maintain my ability to contribute in open source administration. It offends me that the state of the industry is such that I'm expected to sign away my soul on taking any software development job. (The other main reason I won't work for a big is that I don't want to work 40 hours each week but the bigs won't budge on that.)