Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--d3b2a6-The first would be a lawsuit f/en

The first would be a lawsuit filed by a company that to its shock and amazement found that instead of its programmers hoping for their first house, working on the stuff they were supposed to work on by day, they were in fact spending most of their time Slashdot and the rest of their time coding free software, and then occasionally staying up late to do something for the old man. If those programmers have signed, which is typical, agreements with their company that says any software they write actually is property of the company, maybe even a work for hire, what is the prospect that a company could then say, Our code through that coder has been worked in to something like Linux, and it is now infringing unless we are paid damages?