State Trooper Fights For His Source Code 440
BarneyRabble writes to tell us that a Wisconsin State Trooper is fighting to maintain control of the source code for a program he wrote that helps officers write traffic tickets electronically. Praised by the state just 18 months ago, Trooper David Meredith is now suing the head of patrol claiming that the state is trying to illegally seize the source that he had developed on his own time. From the article: "Meredith, of Oconto Falls, defied an order from his bosses to relinquish the source code - the heart of the program - in October and instead deposited it with Dane County Circuit Judge David T. Flanagan, pending a ruling on who should control it. The case centers on how the software was developed. Department of Transportation attorney Mike Kernats said the State Patrol - a division of DOT - provided Meredith with a computer to write the software and gave him time off patrol duties so he could do the work. But Meredith said in court filings that he spent hundreds of hours off duty working on it, developing it almost entirely on his own time. He noted that he never signed a software licensing agreement."
Head Asplode... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
the suspence is killing me (Score:3, Funny)
Give it to the government! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Resources (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's about the MOST wrong dude to mess with. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Resources (Score:5, Funny)
Let me fix that for you.
A lot of people swear at it
There, thats better
Re:and all I can think of is... (Score:4, Funny)
In this case, it's "What cha gonna do when they code for you?"
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
It's like a million lines of source cried out and were instantly silenced...
Re:Resources (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Well... not all of it. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Resources (Score:5, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Head Asplode... (Score:3, Funny)
They usually either assume that development time will be 0, pull a number from their arse, or ask a developer, listen attentively while the developer gives them a reasonable quote and then pull a number from their arse.
Re:Resources (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Funny)
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a GNU.
someone else has seen into the heart of slashdot
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one who read that as (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Head Asplode... (Score:2, Funny)
The boss then makes the difference in the 2 numbers his bonus.