The problem is that signing certain NDAs means that your employer owns all the IP coming out of your brain in the time you are employed by them. Therefore, anything you contribute to any open-source project (during this time) is also subject to such an agreement...
Martin Polley Technical Communicator http://www.surf-com.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (+972) (4) 9095-732 Mobile: (053) 864-280 ICQ 15617901Hlade's Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person. They will find an easier way to do it. -----Original Message----- From: Guy Baruch [mailto:guybar@;plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:08 PM To: Shlomi Fish Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio) I hope this is not too OT for this list, but why not sign an NDA ? I understand not signing total relinquishment of one's past, present or future IP to one's (prospective) employer. (I refused signing such an agreement for a previous employer) I very much agree with not signing anything you have not read before. (ask prospective employer to fax NDA before interview and review it) but not to sign an NDA at all ? why not ? the prospective employer entrusts me with delicate information, I agree to keep his secrets anyway (to the limits of law), why not agree in writing ? One's idea(l)s on OS and open standards does not mean one shouldn't keep secrets. Unless you believe there shouldn't be any comercial secrets _at all_ ? correct me if I'm missing something ... Shlomi Fish wrote: > >1. I will not sign an NDA. > > > -- -- regards +----------------------------------------------------------------------- + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. +mailto:guybar@;plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il + phone: 972-8-934-2211 +----------------------------------------------------------------------- They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose. -- English folk poem, circa 1764 http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
