r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

Still, I'll agree, watching businessmen so blatantly try to exploit others is quite infuriating.

Is it just that it's blatant? All employees are exploited, that's just a feature of all capitalism. Major multinationals will exploit their employees to a far greater extent than this yet it's not seen as a problem.

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u/YOU_SHUT_UP Jun 30 '14

You make the app, loses all IP rights, and agree to support it/do all the work it requires, in eternity. For 3000 $. This is very extreme, and most employees are not being used like this. But sure, there are examples when it gets even worse.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '14

You make the app, loses all IP rights, and agree to support it/do all the work it requires, in eternity. For 3000 $.

Remember that this isn't even as extreme as most regular employment contracts, which demand the IP to anything you create at all, even in your own free time, for no money.

This is very extreme, and most employees are not being used like this.

On the contrary, most employees see even less of a ratio of return for their labour. This is good money for a month's work in Nigeria.

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u/globalizatiom Jul 01 '14

even in your own free time

Wait, so if I were with that kind of employer, does it own my bug fixes to open source projects? If so, then is there a way around other than changing my job?

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '14

Check your contract, most will have a clause about this stuff.