IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address

Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by gkoberger on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:38AM (#26871065)

You and the person you responded to interpreted it exactly the same way, I think.

This IBM employee isn't allowed to contribute to VNIC. Why? I dunno. But the problem isn't if a personal address is used or not, but rather this specific IBM employee can't contribute to VNIC.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the fairness of that, but rather that the OP was saying "it wouldn't have been any better if they had used their IBM address."

To your last point... I doubt that's what's happening here. I don't think IBM wants ownership, but rather is protecting themselves from any sort of litigation or undermining an agreement.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by technion on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#26871113)

That's how I read the text initially - but the diff still notes multiple @linux.ibm.com email addresses as maintainers.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by cycomanic on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:42AM (#26871442)

You're correct, I actually misread the original poster (or he/she edited their post?).

Anyway, after reading a bit more through the thread, I did not realise that VNIC is a IBM driver. It seems like the real situation is a bit more complex.

I would say though, the "You are an IBM employee 100% of the time" is really bad management IMO.

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