Unfortunately, here in Brazil or you are a serf or a jobless... I expect
that to change soon... I guess that I have no lifetime to see that... :-/
LOL

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, the=
n
each of us will have two ideas."
(George Bernard Shaw)

"The only thing necessary to the triumph of evil, is that good men do
nothing."
(Edmund Burke)



On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 20:05, Michael Watterson <mike@radioway.org> wrote:

> On 08/06/2011 23:43, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> > In 2011 ...... If you have an idea and I have an idea and we share them
> ... we now have two IP lawsuits filed against us....
>
> Only if we are working for a Company that's acting like a Medieval Baron.
>
> Though my last job contract I got them to agree that they only had
> exclusive exploitation rights, I owned all IP and that any IP not
> deployed in 5 years they would lose exploitation right. Also if anything
> was exploited with my IP I should get 0.1% of revenue (profits can be
> made to appear to be zero)
>
> Big companies often want to treat people like serfs. Yes the work is
> done mostly but not all in their time. Much depends on prior art and
> experience.
>
> Design is not the same as screwing wheel nuts on. It's unreasonable that
> the Company should completely own the ideas. It's reasonable that having
> hired you that they should have exclusive exploitation for a reasonable
> period but that the creator should get some ongoing royalty as well as
> the original salary.
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