Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em...
by hvidgaard on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:36AM
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I think the argument is that you gain some specialized knowledge at work, so they want to prevent you from working on a competing product using that knowledge, personal, OSS or otherwise. At some point a lawyer probably reduced the sentence to simply require approval in writing for anything to avoid any expensive disputes.
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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em...
by virgilp on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:44AM
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No, they had that one too, it's the non-compete clause basically (it extends a few years after your employment terminates, if I'm not wrong). Again, not sure it's enforceable, I'm not aware of them ever trying to. Probably they might if you were in a leadership position and tried to outright move to a direct competitor? But I never heard of it used for a "regular" employee so I basically ignored its existence.