On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008 3:23:11 pm ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > 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?"
first define what is a 'FOSS company'? The term is unclear. A company that opensources all the code it produces? Then neither the employer nor the employee get anything out of the code in terms of IPR. But such a company will not last for more than 5 minutes. if by a 'FOSS' company you mean one that exclusively uses FOSS tools - as long as it doesnt opensource the code it writes, it is no different from a proprietary company. Take, for example, the company that owns django. They also have a product called ellington which runs on django. Programmers work both on django and Ellington. All the django work goes to the community, the Ellington work is owned by the company - so the company is a FOSS company in so far as it pays for Django coding and a proprietary company otherwise. I personally feel that your question can never be answered as there can never be a FOSS company. -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ 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
