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Your employer basically owns everything you do. Working at a big tech company, you can't contribute to open source without permission of your employer. In the
by hiddencost 4y ago
Your employer basically owns everything you do. Working at a big tech company, you can't contribute to open source without permission of your employer.
In the "Google researcher solves math problem" article, the researcher would have had to get permission to publish the work. If Google had wanted, they could have kept the result secret and used it internally.
- rjzzleep 4y agoNo, that's actually incorrect. They can request that sure, and the guy might comply, but it's against the law and easily contestable. These clauses are invalid. But it's even more absurd to bring this up as a reason why WE should comply with it.