Re: What happened to Howard Rogers ?

It's not unique to Australia and yes, they make you sign a piece of paper to say anything you do between 9am and 5pm belongs to the company... Not just Oracle, BTW. Everyone does that. I wonder what that would do to those who claim
one consulting gig = one book...

Oh, while I'm here: did anyone suggest Howard had been sacked? I don't recall seeing that said anywhere here. There was a troll suggesting that in c.d.o.s., but that was just that: a troll.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au
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> is that copyright thing something unique to Australia? I dont think they can
> claim that in the US unless you sign some documents first.
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> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:39 PM
>
> > Howard's response is below. Hopefully this makes things clearer for
> > those who are still interested.
> >
> >
> > I worked for Oracle for 4 years, producing my own stuff in my
> > own time, to elaborate on questions that perplexed me, and
> > about which I would often get asked by Oracle course students
> > -because the "official" material either didn't cover it,
> > covered it badly, or just plain mis-informed.
> >
> > Oracle claimed copyright on the lot, so I had to remove the
> > material (Lydian Third is a site which copied the lot first,
> > and despite repeated requests still hasn't removed it).
> >
> > In June this year, I asked for permission to have a website
> > again, offering to have all material and content vetted by
> > anyone Oracle cared to choose for the job, before it went up.
> > They refused. I also asked for permission to stay at home when I wasn't
> > training, so that I could do research on Oracle matters. They
> > refused that too.
> >
> > In August, I therefore resigned. I finished work *for* Oracle
> > on October 6th. I had two weeks of leisure, and now I
> > contract back to Oracle, teaching much as before. Only this
> > time, I get to write my own material, and when I'm not
> > training, I can stay at home and do real research.
> >
> > I was never sacked by Oracle.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> > --

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