[phito]

What? Do you know you can code for yourself and not for your employer?

[skirmish]

I think the GP is referring to practices like [1] "Google claims copyright on employee side projects".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21823413

[mgaunard]

Any employer that pays decent money will claim ownership on everything you do even if you do not use any of the company's resources to do so.

[phito]

That's absurd.