IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address

Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by rbanffy on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#26871116)

Depending on internal policy, this could be reason enough for the employee to be fired.

Unless explicitly authorised, I’m not allowed to quote an internal email on a public forum.

As I read it, it looks like it was decided, by IBM, the employee would no longer be a maintainer and adding a personal email to the list of maintainers was a misrepresentation of their current role.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by saagarjha on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:36AM (#26871406)

I suspect that HR is probably discussing termination procedure as we speak and this will proceed unless the PR pressure is overwhelming and makes it difficult to retaliate.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by miga on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:15AM (#26874981)

Unlikely since termination would mean that Lijun can resume work on the kernel.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by dredmorbius on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @11:58AM (#26876406)

That might depend on non-competes (legal in most states outside California), and how they're interpreted.

IBM's bad-will generation here is large.

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by rbanffy on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:03PM (#26881635)

Maybe, but he still won't be paid for it.

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