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And so I resolved to give zero shits from that point on about their IP ownership policies, and did whatever I wanted in my spare time. If you work for Google (Ireland especially) you should check your employment contract carefully. You might be able to do the same.
I hope Google's employees are able to unionize and this is one of the changes they should demand. No company should be able to own things you do in your spare time, especially if they don't relate at all to your job description (regardless of whether they do to someone else's).
Hell yes, brother. Funny how something as old as collective bargaining has only become more relevant as tech has advanced
I've previously thrown a job in the bin over a similar clause. Extremely disappointing (and certainly cost them also). Sometimes the principle is more important though. Frankly those clauses are just abusive and disrespectful, so didn't bode well for a committed future.
Worth noting, that Australia already has regulation and great case law to very well protect employers' IP rights anyway. Which is all good and reasonable. Trying to severely overreach by unconscionable restraints in contract, is far too common though.
There is a new loophole in policies now: oss-patching allows sending patches to any FOSS project on GitHub that doesn't need CLA and isn't AGPL. So you could just ask someone to create a repo for you with a COPYING file in it. Technically. Not that I would ever have done that.
I prefer the loophole of quitting an oppressive, aggressive, imperialistic employer.
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