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Google can claim rights over code that its employees write for outside projects, and former Googlers say this policy 'could potentially put' other projects at risk

, which was started by Google engineers and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Still, former employees have said that they feel Google's policies may discourage them from contributing to open source projects. More often than not, Martin fixes random bugs on a variety of projects, and he says it can be impractical to go through this process for these small fixes. After that, Martin looked at his contract and said he found a logic loophole that he says technically allows him to contribute code to open source projects, as long as it was on his own equipment outside of business hours and not a result of his work at Google. 'It could potentially put the projects at risk'

After learning about these policies, he just decided not to contribute to those projects. He says he mostly wanted to make small code contributions, and going through Google's internal processes every time would create an "absurd amount of overhead."

 

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Google which was funded by tax payer dollars was also stolen from a tax payers funded university - Google belongs to the American People. If needs to confiscated and the values distributed to the American People

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