Forum Post: RE: A (strident) dissenting voice

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medu , the whole open source library thing is a really interesting one. The trouble with ABL in my eyes is that nobody uses it in a non-business sense. Why would they? Licensing is too expensive to dabble in it. As a result anyone who works in ABL is doing so from a position of employment. Very few people would then dabble in their spare time. I've written a few useful tools in my time, and I use some much better ones that others have written. But they've all been written on company time. And it's certainly a feature of all my employment contracts here in the UK that anything written on company time is the intellectual property of the company I am working for and therefore I have no rights to distribute it myself.

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