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legal issues. The company owns the idea and the product if I thought of it/worked on it on their time/equipment.

I do play around with new languages/libs/tools/etc. though.




In the past I would build stuff and rapidly open source it. One of those cases where it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, I figure. If you're not looking to profit from it most companies don't care to come after you.




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