On 2009-10-07, Paul D. DeRocco <pdero...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> From: Grant Edwards
>>
>> Definitely. The copyright for the _vast_ majority of the code
>> written in the US belongs not to the person who wrote it but
>> rather to that person's employer.
>
> On the ground that software writers may spend 40 hours a week writing for
> their employers, but generally spend a lot less working on their on personal
> or hobby projects?
Yes. Firstly, few people who write software for an employer
also do it as a hobby. Based on the people I've worked with
over the past 25 years, I'd say less than 10%. Secondly, of
those few that do software as a hobby, they spend a lot less
than 40hrs a week at it.
> I wonder how much of the contributions to eCos fall into
> the personal project category.
I would guess that very little of the eCos source code was done
as a hobby project. The maintainers would have a much better
idea, but most of the "donations" that I'm aware of were done
on "company time" and then contributed by the employer.
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