IP Law Makes You an Asshole

Ha ha. Perhaps this is a manifestation of a broader principle, another instance of which is Conway's Law (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law</a>): <i>organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.</i><p>I reckon this would be the reverse: the communications structure of a system ("IP" law) is a copy of the organization of the people who created it.

Ideas should be free, implementations shouldn't. As long as I'm not using the actual implementation of whatever I created for my employer, I should be free to use the idea of what I created for any otherwise legal purpose.<p>After all, isn't everything 90% perspiration?<p>Now we just need to define exactly what constitutes implementation.