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Excel does not relate to Ubers’ core business. I’m nearly 100% certain we can look back at this comment in 20 years and find that absolutely nothing happened.
by Aeolun 3y ago
Excel does not relate to Ubers’ core business.
I’m nearly 100% certain we can look back at this comment in 20 years and find that absolutely nothing happened.
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoThe author explains how analyzing and presenting data was worth millions of dollars. The author documents how a senior executive instructed him to write excel. It is clearly their core business. Also, and this comes back to the fantasy/denial/wishful-thinking aspect here, neither I nor the law says core business. That's a word that you added. If you did it as part of your job, then it is, by definition, part of their business. I am also nearly 100% certain we can look back at this comment in 20 years and find nothing happened, but only because nobody will take this code and make a billion dollar business. If they did, I guarantee there would be a law suit.
- user_named 3y agoExcel is not their före business. That executive knows nothing. This is an example why you need product managers and engineers don't talk to users.
- ncallaway 3y ago> neither I nor the law says core business That’s just factually false. You specifically wrote: > Even in California the "I wrote it on my own time" doesn't apply to software that relates to an employer's ***core*** business. You can’t complain about people being “wishful” or in “denial” when they are quoting you. Maybe California law is silent in the topic, but Aeolus wasn’t the person who introduced that specific phrase.
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoOh that’s embarrassing. I did. Apologies. I was wrong to write “core” and wrong to complain when you did it.
- ncallaway 3y agoEh, it happens. No worries
- acjohnson55 3y agoLiterally today I was in a fireside chat where the speaker told us the IP law department at a previous employer brought in a couple billions in revenue by suing for infringement.
- Aeolun 3y agoSure, but they weren’t sueing a rock. Getting a judgement against an individual is vanishingly unlikely to result in any profits.
- acjohnson55 3y agoProbably even more pertinent, in my last job, I worked with a guy who got sued for taking the source code with him. https://unicourt.com/case/pc-db5-better-holdco-inc-et-al-v-drob-1190639 https://unicourt.com/case/pc-db5-better-holdco-inc-et-al-v-d...