After takin' a swig o' grog, Homer belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Richard Rasker spake thusly:
>> Hadron wrote:
>
>>> How much of your work do you give away for free Rasker?
>>
>> I don't exactly know, as I don't keep records of what I do for free.
>> I think it's about a hundred hours worth of work (mostly repairs) per
>> year. And how about you?
>
> As for me, when it comes to Free Software (or /any/ IT) contributions
> outside my employment ... all of it. When it came to my employment, I
> got paid /once/ for the actual labour rendered, but I didn't hold the
> beneficiaries of my work hostage in perpetuity. They paid for labour,
> not some fictitious "IP". /Licenses/ are not "work", /labour/ is. The
> only thing a proprietary license is, is a scam.
Unfortunately, many companies (including the one I work for) are pretty
picky about claiming all that you do at work as their property.
I don't particularly mind that, especially since our customer ends up
getting the code anyway.
But I do have throw a pretty big Chinese wall between my work efforts and my
OSS efforts.
Pucker up, those chimps can be pretty strong:
--
The countdown had stalled at 'T' minus 69 seconds when Desiree, the first
female ape to go up in space, winked at me slyly and pouted her thick,
rubbery lips unmistakably -- the first of many such advances during what
would prove to be the longest, and most memorable, space voyage of my
career.
-- Winning sentence, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
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