Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:06:30 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <001701bfbe09$cd9a2e40$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000513225331.0089d150@mail85.pair.com>
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> At 19:51 13-05-2000 -0700, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > standard corporate lawyering includes the adoption of these > >agreements as a standard company policy. those that do not agree are > >encouraged to seek employment elsewhere. > Which is why I work as a nursing assistant. I was not willing to sign my > brains away and was subsequently "laid off" and could not get another > programming job anywhere in Pittsburgh (where I lived at the time). > All that after three major computer industry employment agencies felt sure > they'd have no way finding an excellent job for a programmer with my > experience. For what it's worth, I've had about 8 different programming jobs at various companies from small to large in the past decade. Not one of them asked me to sign any agreement other than one which stated that what I specifically made for my employer at their direction belonged to them. Why are you going to "major computer industry employment agencies"? I know about ten companies I can list offhand who are desperate for competent programmers. About half of them will let you work from home and about a third of them don't want you to sign anything at all. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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