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From: Dorian Gray on 27 Apr 2010 07:09 In article <1jhkk3x.1b6dvr74q16piN%g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com>, g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com (Gareth John) wrote: > Such terms were certainly specified in my contract of employment with a > Cambridge University department - they owned the rights to any > product-innovative ideas or inventions I had while in their employment. That means you must have been hired as a post-doc post-2001, or as a member of academic staff post-2005. Before those dates, employees owned any inventions.
From: Sak Wathanasin on 27 Apr 2010 07:18 On 25 Apr, 11:30, Chris Ridd <chrisr...(a)mac.com> wrote: > There's some brilliant stuff in the latest Photoshop - they clearly > have some very talented developers. Unfortunately they appear to put > all the trainees on the installers and updaters. Yeah, well installer and updaters aren't the most exciting of projects, so if it's like anywhere else I've ever worked in, the senior developers will pull rank and refuse to do it.
From: Sak Wathanasin on 27 Apr 2010 07:46 On 26 Apr, 13:01, rich...(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote: > In article <1jhk0dh.1j48wkz1yv0nh2N%real-address-in-...(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, > I first heard of Postscript - and got the red and blue books - in the > mid 80s (probably 1984 or 85), when it was used in the new-fangled > laser printers we had. Adobe was founded by Charles Geschke and John Warnock who left PARC when Xerox decided not to go with PostScript (although they didn't call it PS until after they founded Adobe and needed a trademarkable product name) but with a competing language called InterPress for their printers. Warnock together with Martin Newell invented a langauge they called "JaM" (for "John and Martin") that later evolved into InterPress, but philosophical differences developed as the project progressed. The project team more or less split into 2 camps and when Xerox mgmt backed the InterPress horse, Warnock et al left to do their own thing. I worked on a contract for Xerox on a PS to InterPress translator and later on a Mac printer driver for InterPress printers. Both were rear- guard actions by Xerox desperate to sell their InterPress printers into the DTP market. Eventually, they just had to bite the bullet and produce PS printers: it must have been galling for them to have had to licence PS from Adobe.
From: Pd on 27 Apr 2010 07:47 Dorian Gray <D.Gray(a)picture.invalid> wrote: > In article <4bd5e67c$0$2525$da0feed9(a)news.zen.co.uk>, > "Graham J" <graham(a)invalid> wrote: > > > "Bruce Horrocks" <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote in message > > news:83m24uF48uU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > > > > > A friend of mine, years ago when leaving university, refused to work for > > > British Aerospace (as they were then) and went for some firm whose name > > > I've since forgotten. After a while his employers were bought out by > > > someone larger, and then again, and then again until, eventually, after > > > having worked for six different companies without ever moving desk, they > > > were eventually bought out by BAe. At which point he resigned. :-) > > > > There was a similar story in the late 60's about a chap who was really > > skilled at designing capacitors, and who worked for a small company. > > Phillips offered him a spectacular contract, but he declined. In the end > > Phillips bought the small company - so he resigned! > > These days, to avoid this kind of thing happening, an acquiring company > in such a situation will always make it a condition of the sale that the > technical team of the company being acquired remain intact for n years, > where n is often 2. You can't stop someone resigning though. -- Pd
From: Jim on 27 Apr 2010 07:53
On 2010-04-27, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: >> > There was a similar story in the late 60's about a chap who was really >> > skilled at designing capacitors, and who worked for a small company. >> > Phillips offered him a spectacular contract, but he declined. In the end >> > Phillips bought the small company - so he resigned! >> >> These days, to avoid this kind of thing happening, an acquiring company >> in such a situation will always make it a condition of the sale that the >> technical team of the company being acquired remain intact for n years, >> where n is often 2. > > You can't stop someone resigning though. Exactly what I was thinking. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash. |