True multi-vendor collaboration. When a single company releases an open source project, it feels like one employee is throwing it into public so they can grab it and continue their work once they change jobs without actually stealing code.
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Careful, you'll get him fired. ;-)
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Replying to @QuinnyPig @colmmacc
For what it's worth, this is what it looks like when an employee wants to release open source, but the relevant line of business isn't interested in continuing to invest in it. Assign copyright to employee, and they release it. https://github.com/cojen/Tupl https://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-contributed-to-the-open-source-community …
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This is what that looks like at Google:https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
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I am not cut out for corporate employee life. Good lord.
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Replying to @QuinnyPig @colmmacc
Open source policies surely are easier to navigate than cost allocation strategies and bill reduction!
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It's not the red tape, it's the implicit mistaken belief that the company owns its people rather than merely employing them.
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Replying to @QuinnyPig @colmmacc
I don't feel owned. I exchange my efforts (including inventions or other technical artifacts) for my compensation. Amazon has a painless way to notify the company of, or get assistance navigating, "outside activity" that may be covered in one's employment agreement.
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...does that include if you might be contributing to something that competes with or is not in the best interest of your corporate overlords?
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If you're working for corporate overlords ... leave. Non-competes should be illegal, and people should own their work from time off the clock ... but those are personal political positions. Even in that world, it's bad form to compete with one's colleagues without asking them.
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Replying to @colmmacc @robynbergeron and
I could not agree with you more.
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