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Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? 778

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 12, 2007 @03:51AM from the long-arm-of-the-contract dept.

stellar7 writes "I work in IT for a large company. They have recently asked me to sign a new non-compete and confidentiality agreement. I signed an agreement when I began employment, but now they want me to sign an updated one. Behind the link are a few paragraphs from the new agreement. It states that the company has a royalty-free license to any 'Invention' I create including up to six months after leaving (and the company fully owns any Invention that relates to the company in this same period). Has anyone signed a similar agreement that reaches beyond the end of employment and includes things not related to the business?"

Submission + - RedHat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence (eweek.com)

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mrcgran

on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @01:06PM

mrcgran writes: "Eweek is reporting: "Red Hat is assuring its customers that they can continue to deploy its Linux operating system with confidence and without fear of legal retribution from Microsoft, despite the increasingly vocal threats emanating from the Redmond, Wash., company. In a scathing response to Ballmer's remarks, Red Hat's IP team said the reality is that the community development approach of free and open-source code represents a healthy development paradigm, which, when viewed from the perspective of pending lawsuits related to intellectual property, is at least as safe as proprietary software. "We are also aware of no patent lawsuit against Linux. Ever. Anywhere," the team said in a blog posting."

Comment dotProject (Score 1) 236

by danuary on Sunday July 29, 2007 @11:29PM (#20037925) Attached to: Ticket Tracking and Customer Management?

It seems to me that the poster might benefit more from a project management system than a trouble ticketing system. I'd see if dotProject would do the trick. It does have a rudimentary ticketing module to assist interaction with customers, too - FWIW.

Dell Protests 'Not Wintel's Lapdog' 449

Posted by Zonk on Monday April 10, 2006 @06:26PM from the doth-protest-too-much dept.

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is reporting on a protestation by Dell's CTO, Kevin Kettler, who says quite loudly that they are not Microsoft and Intel's puppet." From the article: "Essentially, Kettler argued, Dell was responsible for selecting, if not necessarily developing, many of the technologies in today's desktop computers and servers. Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking, PCI Express communications technology and 64-bit extensions to Intel's x86 line of processors."

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