i have been in the situation where i needed to change the contract wording as an employee because the standard was not acceptable.

basicly the core issue for me is, that i do not care who owns the code, but i do care about what i can do with it.

consider the situation that you learn how to solve a particular problem during work. now, later you find yourself in the situation needing to solve that same, or a similar problem in a free software project.

quite likely you will come up with the same solution?
but that solution is owned by your employer, so you can't use it and must go through pains to come up with a different solution.

that is something i can not accept.

you wrote above, you encurage plagiarism, but the clause above does not reflect that.

in the jobs that i accept i simply demand that:

all code that i write, i may reuse in any free software project under the GPL.

if i don't get that into the contract, then i don't take the job.

since i only entertain job offers where i'll get to work with free software anyways, that change to the contract so far was always accepted.

greetings, eMBee.