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Why would you ask that? It’s literally your time and resources.

Apple made it pretty clear that they viewed pretty much any code that I wrote while I was employed by them, by default, belonged to them. If I contributed to an open source repo without legal's explicit approval, it was grounds for termination.

It was ridiculous.

I've encountered this sort of clause in about 2/3 of the employment contracts I've been presented with. Every time, I object to it and request that it be removed and replaced with wording to the effect of "I won't use company time, resources, or information in side projects".

Every time I've done this, they've agreed to the change. If they don't, then I don't take the job.

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