IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address

Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by michaelt on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:39PM (#26882126)

> I don't think the narrative is usually "you can't work on anything else"; it's that you can't claim to have two jobs.

In the case we're talking about, the employee was told they can't work on the kernel in their free time. Clearly not a second job.

> It's not clear to me that "[email protected]" vs "[email protected]" changes the equation on portfolio lookup by any significant degree.

In this case, they were told they couldn't work on the kernel even under their personal e-mail address - and to remove the credit for work they'd already done. Seems pretty clear-cut to me?

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Re:IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal em... by setr on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @10:30PM (#26884770)

I’m not sure what you’re reading but it’s not what I’m reading.

TFA only talks about working under gmail vs ibm email; it says nothing about not working on it period (perhaps by removal from maintainer’s file? But I read that as switch it with it the IBM email, since that’s all it talks about otherwise.)

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