[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Jeremy North]

> There is a valid precendence to this.. Without saying who or when..
> I have contracted in a firm before where there was a clear case of an
> employee "holding back" at work and not exhibiting the full potential of
> their skills and salary.. at the same time they discovered he was developing
> applications different from work but for the same sector.. in their mind
> these products should rightly have been introduced into the companies
> product... Especially if you are employed as someone who is supposed to
> guide the direction of the software.

I agree. They should have fired the guy.
Developing products in the same sector is not the most intelligent thing to do.

> I have also seen quite a few cases of employees who blatantly learns skills
> on a job and then use them to make money on the side (again, through
> contract roles)

Employee's also learn skills away from the job and then use then daily
to do their job.

> And lasty.. if you are using any company owned assets in the development of
> personal gain then that is really not Kosha.. you should be using your own
> licenses, computers etc etc..

I wouldn't recommend doing that at all. It makes the line between home
and work a little too blurry.