Mensaje citado por: asimovd@aol.com:
Can anyone explain how a mathematical theorem can be protected intellectual property?
We still don't know whether that's the problem, although it is a likely candidate. Whatever he had visible through Yahoo! or Google hadn't changed in some time, but it's now verboten. The problem here is that "work for hire" aspect. I've seen what was supposed to be the confidentiality and intellectual property agreement which he apparently signed when hiring on at WRI; I've signed similar in the course of my various employments. His work was sufficiently original that the agreement should have been redrafted, but apparently it wasn't. How can you hold an employee responsible for a "trade secret" when it was a highly original secret which the employee himself generated? But as Dan H. has reminded us, we aren't trade secret or copyright lawyers, so we can only stand aside and watch the circus. And hope it is a false alarm. - hvm ------------------------------------------------- Obtén tu correo en www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos