Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.org) writes:
> The concept of inalienable rights, rights that you cannot cede because
> everyone should always have them, is a fundamental part of the legal
> system of the US and many other countries.
>
> For example, selling oneself into slavery used to be permitted in most
> parts of the world. But people eventually recognized that this led to
> less freedom for a large number of people--and eventually slavery was
> abolished. This is one example of an inalienable right. There are
> many others. For example, in the US a noncompetition agreement
> lasting many years is legally void--because it conflicts with the
> inalienable right to practice one's profession.
Tell that to 99% of the companies that employ high tech workers. Most of the so-called "employee agreements" aren't worth the paper they are printed on. They even contain explicit wording that one is signing away one's rights, yet according to the USSC, that is impossible. Yet, if they feel you've broken their unlawful contract, they will come after you in court, even they *know* that contract is unenforceable.
There's something very, very wrong in letting companies bully people into essentially abandoning their rights because the company has more lawyers and more money. Something immoral, downright evil in that.
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