On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Martin Polley wrote about "RE: OT, NDA (was: Looking for a Job : Shlomi Fish' Bio)": > 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...
This only happens if you're stupid enough to sign an NDA saying that... Refuse to sign anything that looks like "everything you do or think while employed here belongs to us". But agree to sign something like "everything you do or think ... that is directly related to our business of <....> belongs to us". For example, if you work for a company that writes source-code-control systems, you cannot do other source code control systems "on the side" pretending that you don't take ideas from your company. If you work for a company making source-code-control systems, you cannot help a free- software competitor like (say) subversion in your free time. This is actually quite fair... But if you work in a source-code-control company, you should be allowed to work on (say) freecell solver on the side, and the company does not own it or anything you do for it. But my suggestion: do the "NDA refusal" only after you are guaranteed the job and given a contract to sign. If you go with the "I will not sign an NDA" to the first interview or put it in the CV, they can easily ignore you without even considering you :( -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Nov 14 2002, 9 Kislev 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |How to become immortal: Read this http://nadav.harel.org.il |signature tomorrow and follow its advice. ================================================================= 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]
