[switch007]

I do love the absurdity in the UK where recent employment contracts (last 5 years or so) often state that "all your everything are belong to us" (IP, copyright, creative output, thoughts, ideas etc), yet companies also want applicants who actively contribute to or release open-source software.

Having worked under such terms, I've never felt I could participate in open source without jeopardising the project.

[VLM]

Its weasel words for they want a noob, recent grad, or a contractor.

They don't want "You were doing exactly the same thing over there, now you'll be doing exactly the same thing over here", because they don't have the money in the budget for a real applicant.