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"My experiences working with this committee were completely positive, but there was often a two-month lag before I got an official reply from them." -- he's des
by rachelbythebay 14y ago
"My experiences working with this committee were completely positive, but there was often a two-month lag before I got an official reply from them." -- he's describing the situation where they own everything you do if it has anything to do with them.
I have a pet hypothesis which is that these non-competes are strangling innovation in the Valley (and beyond). I know I personally made sure to shut off the "ideas" part of my brain until I was free and clear lest they try to claim ownership of things I would later invent.
This "delay for long enough to kill it" thing happened to a friend of mine. I wrote about it here: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/16/squashed/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/09/16/squashed/
- DannyBee 14y agoFirst, this is not the normal open sourcing process. He says "This uncertainty bothered me a lot, since I wasn't sure whether my project could be legally released as open source.". The normal open sourcing process takes about 3-7 days. If he really wanted certainty about releasing it as open source, he could have gone through that process and been done with it. The process he is talking about is the process of Google granting ownership of various IP rights that google would normally own, to the employee. For various reasons (ethics, patents, copyright, etc) this is more complicated, and takes longer. Google is one of the few large companies that even lets you do this, AFAIK. The humorous part of all this is that the page describing the process, states quite clearly it will take about 2 months to make a decision. So it's not like the 2 month wait was unexpected, either, and phrasing it like he does implies that there was some amount of uncertainty in the time period where he was being strung along, which is simply not the case.