On Sun, 22 Jun 2025, Felipe Contreras wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM Alan Coopersmith
<[email protected]> wrote:
(Not to mention many of us have employers who require that media contacts
go through our work press relations staff, and that we not engage in
outside interviews without that.)
Are you telling me that your employee is forbidding you from engaging
with citizen journalists from the open source community?
The agreements companies ask people to sign have gotten more and more
restrictive over the years. I would not be surprised if at some point I'll
see a lawyer draft an agreement prohibiting any activity outside of work,
including fishing or gym exercise.
A lot of that is probably unenforceable, but I doubt even the lawyers
know for sure which is which. A good idea is to discuss with your employer
and get them to pare down particularly restrictive bits.
As for Xorg, as long as you can download source code from the Internet it
does not go away.
Get the source, compile it, see if it works. If there are problems, solve
them and share the code back if your agreements allow it.
best
Vladimir Dergachev
You can just say that, and that's what I will report.
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Felipe Contreras
