“who will lay claim to all their efforts both inside and outside the company” Ah, yes, the infamous “inventions” clause which pretty much any and all developer

“who will lay claim to all their efforts both inside and outside the company” Ah, yes, the infamous “inventions” clause which pretty much any and all developers need to sign to get a job. Here in California, we have a key exception encoded in law: Anything I do on my own time, with my own gear, not related to my day job is something I can release as open source code. And there are starting to be companies with “open source Fridays” out there who can and do let people openly work on open source while on the clock.