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Half the reason for these agreements is because they generally do want all your intellectual property: it means that there's less risk of one of their entrepreneurial employees quitting and starting a competitor, even in an ostensibly unrelated sector.



I don't think they really want to be legally liable for everything I make outside work, even though they might say that.




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