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> craftspeople take their jigs with them from job to job Except for software gigs the software typically belongs to the customer so you'd need to rewrite it ev
by worldsayshi 4mo ago
> craftspeople take their jigs with them from job to job
Except for software gigs the software typically belongs to the customer so you'd need to rewrite it every time...
- borski 4mo agoDepends. If you are a contractor, like most craftspeople, your tools are your own.
- ninjalanternshk 4mo agoMy contracts always state I own tools created or byproducts of the work that don't end up in the work.
- pjmlp 4mo agoOnly if you are self employed, otherwise it belongs to the agency.
- borski 4mo agoAgain: it depends. It is all about how the contract is written.
- pjmlp 4mo agoI never seen any other kind of contract, on my 50ys.
- borski 4mo agoYou're definitely right for most agencies; most will let you use it in a portfolio or something, but not necessarily retain the rights to the work. Some agencies do, however; it's dependent on the contract specifics.
- krzyk 4mo agoI'm curious how does it work, you handover the tools you wrote, .bashrc/.zshrc, etc? When I'm hired in a company (not contract), they wipe the harddrive when I leave (well, I also do it before I hand it over sometimes). So they don't get the tools (I take them with myself, it would be a waste to loose them)
- pjmlp 4mo agoHow do you take them with you in first place, without doing data thef? As per NDAs and work contracts, nothing is supposed to leave either employer nor customer systems into unauthorised third parties.
- borski 4mo agoIf you are a W2 employee in the US, you are almost certainly in violation of your PIIA if you take anything off the company-issued computer and keep it.
- ClikeX 4mo agoDepends. With all the web agencies I've made, the only code that belonged to customers was the actual website part. Any of the "jigs" that we made for our workflow was not part of that. And contractually, any code I made was my employer's if I made it during office hours. Some even made a claim for code I would've written that during my employ that would be "competitive". Luckily, there was a massive difference in what I would do in my own time versus what they did.