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📣 fizzbuzzz

Does your current employer purchase subscription of your side project?


I’m wondering what (if) are the ethical concerns. Also, did you disclose that you are the developer of that product?


  👤 austincheney Accepted Answer ✓
At my current job when I was first hired a coworker strongly recommended an open source application not knowing I wrote it. In this case there was no money involved with that open source personal application.

I would say your scenario is absolutely an ethical violation called a conflict of interest.

https://compliance.ucf.edu/understanding-conflict-of-interes...

In some cases a failure to disclose a conflict could be illegal, as in a form of fraud.