I've been working a long time on a project at a site which doesn't protect its source code well. The code is expensive to replace but not easy to sell i.e. its valuable, but not commercially valuable.
I am working with someone who I know wants to take the code, and is asking me for a written (Idiot's) guide to the code, which is incidentally mosly my work. Additionally he wants me to make a knowledge transfer to an ex-employee of his who he is going to wangle into the team.
My contract does not have a "training" task listed, and has no catch-all "anything else we dream up" clause either.
Generally I am opposed to letting this guy get the source code and run off with his "code-monkey" who is not (so far) trained up on the tools necessary to build this code, so would need a guided tour from me.
How do I stop this guy getting the code? Can I stop it? I'm going to be off-site in a few weeks anyway, I want to leave the site with my reputation intact and to finish my work well, but I also want to thwart this guy's plans.
Any suggestions? Is there any way to get a result without causing major aggro?
dweezil
I am working with someone who I know wants to take the code, and is asking me for a written (Idiot's) guide to the code, which is incidentally mosly my work. Additionally he wants me to make a knowledge transfer to an ex-employee of his who he is going to wangle into the team.
My contract does not have a "training" task listed, and has no catch-all "anything else we dream up" clause either.
Generally I am opposed to letting this guy get the source code and run off with his "code-monkey" who is not (so far) trained up on the tools necessary to build this code, so would need a guided tour from me.
How do I stop this guy getting the code? Can I stop it? I'm going to be off-site in a few weeks anyway, I want to leave the site with my reputation intact and to finish my work well, but I also want to thwart this guy's plans.
Any suggestions? Is there any way to get a result without causing major aggro?
dweezil
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