On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Vamsee Kanakala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's tough to convince otherwise when you're coming from that point of view. > Why do you think investors only exploit? They spot an opportunity, and they > put in money to exploit the opportunity, not the people. If some exploit > people in that pursuit, you have to blame that particular individual, not > investors in general. It's possible to do business ethically, you know :). >
The first argument of mine is substantiated by the argument that followed and your reply holds good if the agreement between the employee and employer aren't the typical proprietary ones. It that agreement is a typical proprietary one, that asks the employee to surrender everything, then the system which encourages that need to be blamed. If that's the system the investor chooses to follow? (May be I can express better in Tamil, if this is unclear) > > At least in mine, all code that gets done for clients is closed, and the > clients have full rights over it, and all code that gets contributed back to > FOSS projects is open. And it's done on the company's dime. We just stick an > MIT licence to it. Actually, there are plenty of startups that work this > way. > Agreeable. But that's not what I asked for. I would like to now "Are Employee - Employer agreement different in a FOSS company compared to that of a Proprietary Company?, If so How? and on What aspects?" -- Sri Ramadoss M _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
