Hi,
I joined a company to help develop software that done “stuff”. The companies software is not the 1st of it’s type; there are other applications available that do similar things, so its concept is not patented in any way.
Anyway, under the hood there software was rubbish! So, in my own time, and on my own equipment, and under no instruction from my employees, I started to develop a system that in the end would offer similar functionality to that of their rubbish system.
My software was built from the ground up, and nothing was taken from the rubbish system. My software is incomplete and was purely developed to prove a point about good system architecture.
I have decided to leave the company, and they are now saying that my software is theirs.
Where do I stand?
Cheers,
ETFairfax
