We have no evidence that the first thing wasn't attempted. Furthermore, from the phrasing of the message (refuting the idea that one can contribute to one's em

We have no evidence that the first thing wasn't attempted. Furthermore, from the phrasing of the message (refuting the idea that one can contribute to one's employer's project as a hobby), we have some evidence that there was previous context, unknown to us. We also have evidence that the employee in question was previously contributing on behalf of their employer, and for some reason, recently stopped: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/MAINTAINERS?id=6b389c16378a03fe71f3b1365b593ba41d2dd8ec https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...