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Re:IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% o... by praptak on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:33AM (#26874404)
> I’m not sure why people sign these things though...

Two reasons actually:

1. Companies actually need those agreements because it's how copyright works [0].

2. Capitalism - companies have leverage.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...

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