CompuServe Messages

Dom, Ok, with a software developer who develops software on his/her own time…still a grey area according to what I've read in the popular press about such issues. For example, what if I (the software developer) stay after hours and use the company's computers to develop this software. Or what if I take an idea I've heard a manager talk about to another programmer and decide I like the idea and use it in a commercial product. Or what if I "borrow" snippets of code I've developed for the company and apply it to my own program. Now, if I do everything completely outside the work environment, that is…program conception, coding, etc. then that's clearly the property of the programmer. Don