- We need a society to prevent persecution by the corporations. Corporations usually pay lip service to the Free Software movementMore to the point "Corporations are excited by Open Source Technology" call themselves Open Source Companies because they use Open Source Products
but
tie down their employees with Non disclosure agreementsWell not specifically NDAs but a number of ways and means to tie down from making any actual OSS contributions.
1. I believe it is ok for a company that pays salary to own copyright
( Different from License on Code which can even be GPL )
to your code whether you wrote it in your free time or office hours. One has a choice to accept or reject such terms.
One may for example accept such terms and conditions if a company is generally open about contributions being made to Open Source. The NDA here might be just used to protect the proprietary side of the business or confidential business information which is reasonable.
2. The reference is more towards totally forbidden contributions back to the OSS.
3. Its about choice did the employee understand and is proactively aware what he signed away.
http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040701GoogleSuedOverOrkutCode.html
A case in point.
- To prevent intellectual property feudalism (i.e. patents on useful algorithms )There are a lot of patents on very simple and general concepts.
ILUGD society needs money for
- Conduct its activities. Say an install fest -Tarun
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