[aestra]

As a condition of my employment, I had to sign a contract with my former employer that basically said since I was a software engineer with them, they owned all the software I wrote, even if I wrote it outside of my work hours. This obviously prevented me from working on any OSS.

Also please read my above comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6740089 The article links to another article about why it favors white men.

[csixty4]

> As a condition of my employment, I had to sign a contract with my former employer that basically said since I was a software engineer with them, they owned all the software I wrote, even if I wrote it outside of my work hours.

I had an employer spring an intellectual property agreement just like that on me. I'd been working there for six months already, and had to threaten to walk out unless they specifically put in an exception for open source work in mine.