So I work at a large company, with well over 75,000 people. Its extremely large and the bureaucracy sucks.
A developer and I built this state of the art product on the Android phone. It can be ported over to the iPhone and the WP7. This product is soo revolutionary, it has the ability to put an entire product out of business. A product that is soo incredibly important to man kind, that without its use we as a Human race could all suffer deadly consequences without its use.
This Android product takes over the roll of the product. Instead of costing nations (yes, nations) a couple thousand dollars for EACH device, my company could inevitable put this application into the hands of every single person with a mobile phone. Therefore, entirely disrupting and of course saving tax payers millions over time. And not to mention, this product could be used by everyone in the world.
But what does my company do? They decide that placing apps on the marketplace will not return enough revenue to make this product worth while. Even charging $10.00 for a product like this, they decide against it. This product has the potential to save millions of lives when disaster strikes, but what do they do? The bury it. The put it into a hole and never think about it again.
So what do I do? I can’t do anything. If I were to write my own application, I would be sued for millions. Taken to court and most likely lose my job over it. I am also bound by certain contracts signed when I first started here. Anything I build, my company owns. My working peers around me say, I should write a brand new application and just release it. It would make the world a better place, so just do it.
I am looking for advice here. For some help and guidance. Do I do my own thing to “help make the world a much safer place to live”?