Who owns your code? 
While reading through Perl Monks a while ago I found this thread. It deals with who exactly owns the code your write - on and OFF working hours. Reading it REALLY made me nervous. Granted I haven’t written anything worthwhile - but the idea that my company can own EVERYTHING I have EVER written while employed is just plain old wrong. I think I need to talk to my boss about this and get it straightened out and on paper.
January 6th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
I doubt if any company can enforce it legally, i.e the part about owning the code that you write in your free time. Better companies are willing to sign a ‘disterest agreement’ if you can prove that the code that you will be writing (for a open source project) is not in direct competition of the comapny’s products.