This is why I am very glad to be an independent contractor without the pesky “inventions” clause. With “inventions” clauses, if I worked on my open-source Mara

This is why I am very glad to be an independent contractor without the pesky “inventions” clause. With “inventions” clauses, if I worked on my open-source MaraDNS while on the clock, a company could make a reasonable legal case that they own it. Even in California, where a company can not own inventions done on one’s own equipment in one’s own time (as long as it’s not related to their day job), before signing an “inventions” clause, I am very careful to tag my GitHub repos with a date stamp before the date I signed the inventions clause, and only use versions of my open source software at work which I wrote before I started working for them (e.g. I have a secure password generator shell script, and when I use it to generate the dozen or so passwords I need to do my work, I use a version which existed before I started work at the company).