At 3:43 PM +1000 25/7/01, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>I also understand in some software development firms, programmers have to sign
>a disclaimer that says they will not work on similar products for
>months or years after they leave for fear that they will somehow
>write code into competing products that contains specific algorithms
>that originated from their prior place of work....
Yep. One of my sons, Andrew, wrote RealBasic,
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=xbasic&list , a MacOS, Windows
and Java fast application development environment able to import
VisualBasic projects. When he fell out with Real Software,
http://www.realsoftware.com/ who now sell it, he had to sign such an
agreement.
Tony
-- phone +61 2 6241 7659 mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au http://purl.oclc.org/NET/Tony.Barry
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