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The supreme irony of Joel taking a hard line “we own everything you do 24/7/365 if you work for us, and forget about making open source software” stance is that
by strenholme 7y ago
The supreme irony of Joel taking a hard line “we own everything you do 24/7/365 if you work for us, and forget about making open source software” stance is that he uses Nginx as his web server.
Nginx got in some legal issues because it started out as an employee’s side project: https://lwn.net/Articles/807324/ https://lwn.net/Articles/807324/
If Joel practiced what he preaches, and thinks no employees have a right to develop OSS software while on the company payroll, he needs to stop using nginx right now.
- city41 7y agoDid you read the whole article? I didn’t get the impression Joel took any stance. It felt more like “look this is how it is, and here’s why.”
- strenholme 7y agoMy impression is that he takes the stance that “I don’t just want to buy your 9:00-5:00 inventions. I want them all” (to quote the article verbatim).
- aliceryhl 7y agoJoel put that phrase inside quotes and follows it up with “This is where we are by default. This is the standard employment contract for developers, inventors, and researchers.”