20 Sep
2000
20 Sep
'00
2:41 p.m.
At 08:55 AM 9/20/00 -0700, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
Not the Univerisity I work for. It claims rights to any code I develop
on university computers. (But fortunately it doesn't have a problem of open
source or public domain release of most source code.) There was a volunteer
on a project here that tried to use some software developed here for a
commercial venture. The university made him rewrite it from scratch...
And he wasn't even paid for his work...
Eric
It's more the point is that Gates and Co. used
U.S. government and Harvard
University computers to develop their BASIC. If Harvard had done what it
was well within its rights to do and claimed ownership of the code or placed
it in the public domain, rather than just giving Gates the boot, the computing
world might be a somewhat different place.
Yes, but universities are also well-known for letting researchers
and even students use their computers for whatever purpose they
like, without regard for the intellectual property rights...