Obviously the dude was not Eric Raymond, because he would have sent the IBM Fuckhead an appropriate reply. These are the developers at IBM, who after being watched by the IBM Panopticon, they obey!
Now repeat after me, "Whenever I hear the voice say, 'Now, listen to me, ' I will obey." "When I hear the voice say, 'Now, listen to me, ' I will obey." > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 7:37 PM > From: "Eric Botcazou" <ebotca...@libertysurf.fr> > To: "Giacomo Tesio" <giac...@tesio.it> > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: On US corporate influence over Free Software and the GCC > Steering Committee > > > Here the relevant excerpt (but please go chech the quotation): > > > > "As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work > > in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account > > as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. > > Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. I grant you a 1 > > time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this change." > > > > > > This is happened yesterday (literally). > > Troubling indeed, but this might just be an overzealous manager. IBM, like > other corporations, has made significant technical contributions to GCC over > the years, for example the scheduler and the vectorizer, and thus has assigned > the copyright of these contributions to the FSF. > > -- > Eric Botcazou > > >
