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That's if they didn't use any resources from their employer. If that code touched their work laptop (which it did since he showed it), it's now company propert
by m00x 3y ago
That's if they didn't use any resources from their employer.
If that code touched their work laptop (which it did since he showed it), it's now company property.
That code most likely belongs to Uber legally, but they probably don't care that much.
- contravariant 3y agoEven if it didn't touch any company resources the company just needs to be able to claim it was created within the scope of their employment or as part of the work they were hired to make. Which is, you know, hard to argue against if you wrote the code during your employment and copied it into the code base you were hired to work on.
- patmcc 3y agoYou write code on your personal computer outside of work hours, it belongs to you (barring truly terrible and likely unenforceable contracts). Let's say you put it up on github. The next day you download it onto your work laptop and use it to solve problem X. I don't think there's any reasonable interpretation where your company now owns it.