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		samstave on April 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Ideas, My Boss’s Property Typically work done in your spare time on company hardware/resources falls under this clause. Anything you develop after hours on your own machine is yours.

collyw on April 15, 2014 [–]

How about if you ssh to you home machine on work time and do stuff there?

samstave on April 15, 2014 | [–]

Pretty sure thats frowned upon. They are paying you for ypur time at the office to work for them.

Plenty of people have done it, but likely not acceptable from an HR perspective.

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