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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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 @_msw_
I prefer to remind folks that employees own the company, in every real sense, including literally through stock. We emphasize ownership a lot, and it's our job to be leaders, not followers. But I do see too much of the other belief.
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You don’t own the company if you can get fired & don’t control what you work on or how much you get paid. Employees can act as owners without deluding themselves that they’re the owners. Getting paid with RSUs has absolutely nothing to do with ownership or acting like an owner.
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We do own the company as shareholders. Ownership and control are not the same thing. Even majority owner founders can be fired, and don't really "control" their worth. Control is fleeting and illusory in life, we all achieve more through collaboration and compromise.
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Ownership *is* a state of control. There’s nothing wrong with not owning the place of work, and acting as an owner when you’re not is a noble thing to do in every situation (at work,
renting, etc). But company messaging that we’re all owners and one big ol’ family is just BS.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
If control is necessary for ownership - how do you account for partial, shared, or communal ownership of any kind with that world view? What about the intangible? The law says I own the songs I write, but I can't control them, do I own them then? are they mine?
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