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Yes, that is called "Work for Hire". You were paid for
that time, therefore you don't own<br>
what you created, your employer does. When I started as a
programmer for Reuters<br>
developing a major portion of their market data ticker plant
distribution, I could not<br>
release any of that either.<br><br>
Too bad, some of the ideas were mine, developed on company time.<br>
One program called the "Agent", was an general API for multiple
protocols.<br>
(Before XML was even an acronym, and companies needed a way to
communicate<br>
market data to one anothers, a multi-billion dollar company was grown out
of<br>
that idea.) But I couldn't take it to market. I did it as a work for
hire.<br><br>
The link I provided is open source with requirements like most open
source.<br>
The modified version I provided to a group of people that sent me email
IMHO<br>
works better.<br><br>
Your inability to provide a solution is understood. I have made
good on the link,<br>
and the compilation tar, which was shortened from daemontools to
dtools.<br>
(Who wants to type all that...).<br><br>
It is done. People have what they need. I think I have apologized
for my PMS.<br><br>
Lets move on to "Where do we stand on the COD2 Linux
server"?<br><br>
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At 02:28 PM 10/18/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Personally I have been given
specific instructions not to help other people with code I've written for
other companies, I have no choice in the matter, simple as that. Same
goes pretty much with other support I do. Yet I want to help people, I
enjoy gaming, I enjoy coding (no not even that good, far from it), I'm
not on these lists just to annoy people or to suck up information and
give nothing in return as most aren't. How do I get around it? By pretty
much being anonymous and trying to help people as much as I can without
releasing any code written for someone else certainly.
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Mark J.
DeFilippis
defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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