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That sucks dude, I'm sorry. I mean, I get it from the company's perspective. They have a product that serves video, you were building a thing that served video

That sucks dude, I'm sorry. I mean, I get it from the company's perspective. They have a product that serves video, you were building a thing that served video. The thing that irks me is that since they build multiple operating systems and a wide range of software, literally anything you write and publish on the public internet is theirs simply because they will fire you and sue you into oblivion. Even if you _technically_ slip through a loop hole, they have more money and time than you do. Stories like this remind me that I have to be careful about who I work for, the scope of that work, and where I publish it. Thankfully, I think I'm in the clear as long as I don't invent a thing that solves the traveling salesman problem.

tombert 3y ago
I personally don’t really think Plex/Emby/Jellyfin are really “competing” with Apple. Jellyfin and the like require a geeky person to maintain and supply video files of their own, Apples products are easy and streamlined by design. They’re superficially kind of similar but, like, depending on how abstract we wanted to get we could basically say that anything is competitive with anything e.g. “Your product has text, and we sell books that contain text, so it’s competitive” Regardless, I guess what they said worked, because despite me not having worked for Apple for more than three years now, I still don’t want to open source I am still a bit worried about being sued (especially since I didn’t leave on the best of terms with them). That said, my current job is much more reasonable about this stuff (and also much more domain-focused), so maybe I’ll be able to dust off my public GitHub again some day. (Again, I am sure you can figure out which company I work at (I have public profiles) but I ask that you don’t post it here.)

tombert 3y ago

I personally don’t really think Plex/Emby/Jellyfin are really “competing” with Apple. Jellyfin and the like require a geeky person to maintain and supply video files of their own, Apples products are easy and streamlined by design. They’re superficially kind of similar but, like, depending on how abstract we wanted to get we could basically say that anything is competitive with anything e.g. “Your product has text, and we sell books that contain text, so it’s competitive” Regardless, I guess what they said worked, because despite me not having worked for Apple for more than three years now, I still don’t want to open source I am still a bit worried about being sued (especially since I didn’t leave on the best of terms with them). That said, my current job is much more reasonable about this stuff (and also much more domain-focused), so maybe I’ll be able to dust off my public GitHub again some day. (Again, I am sure you can figure out which company I work at (I have public profiles) but I ask that you don’t post it here.)