[DigitalSea]

Some of the side projects he worked on prior to joining Google.

>Like many Googlers, I had projects I worked on in my spare time. Some of those I carried over from before joining.

>When I joined, I submitted two projects that I was actively working on at the time, largely just maintaining: AsbestOS (yes, those were the PS3 Linux days) and usbmuxd (iPhone USB comms daemon, you probably have it if you have Ubuntu!).

[ownagefool]

They also said it wasn't during work hours or on googles equipment.

Though, honestly, I doubt I really even agree on the equipment clause when it. When said equipment is a laptop and a phone, using their device would be more about not wanting to carry multiple devices than any interstice value gained by the equipment.

[mamon]

I think this restriction makes more sense in other industries, such as pharmaceuticals, where lab equipment can cost millions of dollars, so employee doing their own "side projects" on it is more real abuse of company property.

[ownagefool]

I'd typically agree, there is a solid argument there and the premise as a whole makes sense, I just think trivialities should be excluded, and that standard software development is fairly trivial use.

Once you test such software against company owned datasets, it's a different ballgame.