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I have noticed a pattern to the non-compete and other agreements put in front of me. Your discoveries become company property unless they are publicly available knowledge. For example, if I develop a programming approach where new tasks can get done by simply entering records in a database and that becomes my default programming style, a company can claim it and prohibit me from using it elsewhere. Imagine being prohibited from doing anything the way you naturally do it. It would be like forcing a right handed person to be left handed. Given the publicly available knowledge exclusion, it would seem to be a sensible thing to do to publish and present a new framework you invent to the public BEFORE implementing it for your employer. Thoughts?