"Ken Wright" wrote in message
...
Good point Tom. Must admit I've wondered about that myself before when
the
effort had been done in my time and work had had the benefit of it.
Trouble
is then there are mods that get made on work's time and so on, so can get
a
bit grey I suppose.

Hi Ken,

It's been a while since I've looked into the legal ramifications of this
sort of thing. But the last time I did (and this is for US-based developers,
I have no idea how other countries handle it) I discovered that *any*
application development you do is owned by your employer as long as the
purpose of the application is related to the job for which you are employed.
It doesn't matter whether you develop the application on or off working
hours.

My gut feel is that the average employer doesn't have a clue about any
of this and probably wouldn't notice. But if they did notice and took you to
court you would end up on the wrong end of the stick.

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