AWS gives open source the middle finger?

Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by ipsum2 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:53PM (#18871382)

Most big tech companies that I'm familiar with allow you to program on your free time, as long as you give them a heads up and it doesn't conflict with the company's products. E.g. working on a video game or contributing to open source.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by akhilcacharya on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:15PM (#18871479)

From what I understand from coworkers from Google and other parts of Amazon the process is pretty similar to get approval outside of games.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by tanilama on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:21PM (#18871500)

Why is game development different?

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by throwaway1280 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:49AM (#18873445)

Worked for Amazon. It was a big issue internally, but we never got a good answer to that question.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by notyourwork on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:00PM (#18871418)

Please name one, they all have the same non-compete language in their job offers and they are at-will positions. It may be allowed by your manager but company policy isn't such.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by Pfhreak on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:06PM (#18871436)

Other companies have exemption policies, or mechanisms to get approvals. Amazon does not. Your choices were work privately on your own project or leave (or risk being fired for violating the policy.)

Amazon was more aggressive (in my opinion) and much stricter than any other company I've ever worked at.

Edit: I researched a lot of the other tech companies. Here's Google's documentation, for example, which outlines an exception process: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by eclipxe on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:50AM (#18871812)

Amazon has an exemption policy.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by Pfhreak on Thursday January 10, 2019 @09:39AM (#18874090)

Not to the game development policies.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by ipsum2 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:42AM (#18872004)

Off the top of my head, there's company policies for employees to work on their own projects at Google, Facebook, and Github.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by saagarjha on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:03AM (#18872296)

How often are they granted, and under what circumstances?

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by brlewis on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:16AM (#18873569)

Hopefully a more recent Googler will answer you. In 2013 they were granted often, so long as they didn't compete with a Google product. I had to close my photo sharing site off to new users when I started at Google.

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