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Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- To: Kamil Iskra <kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl>
- Subject: Re: mods for compiling perl && perl common packages
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Tue, 4 Aug 98 21:11:28 +0200
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980804125133.745H-100000@jinks.home>
> I am simply wondering how what you wrote above is actually
> possible? I mean, in my country it is also true that my
> student projects are intellectual property of my
> University. But that's all. What I do in my own free time
> is my personal business and nobody can step in. How come
> this is not the case in the US? How can they monopolize
> your free time?
Well, I do not know the situation for students in my country, but
I'm a civil servant for the Dutch Meteorological Institute, and I
got a letter last week that summoned me to write up all my
activities outside the 36-hour office week, whether paid or unpaid:
"Indicating these activities will be understood as a request for
permission to keep carrying out these activities"
"_Initially_, you yourself judge whether these activities are a
barrier for your function in the public office" (emphasis mine)
Reason: "Integrity of Public Offices" :-(
I wonder what will be considered more subversive: My work for my
church or the activities involved in supporting the Fortran part of
egcs ...
Cheers,
Toon.