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But if you bake a cake in your off-time, do you tell people it's from you or from your company?
by mbirth 5y ago
But if you bake a cake in your off-time, do you tell people it's from you or from your company?
- ceejayoz 5y agoThis particular repo is maintained by IBM, though. If I work for a bakery, bake a cake at home, and come put it in the display cooler at work, they might have issues with that.
- Aeolun 5y agoI dunno, does your bakery need that cake? Are your tools at home equal or better than the ones in your office? There’s more to that than the simple example you give.
- ceejayoz 5y ago> There’s more to that than the simple example you give. It's likely "You are an IBM employee 100% of the time" has a similarly complex backstory. > I dunno, does your bakery need that cake? Are your tools at home equal or better than the ones in your office? Ultimately, if the bakery explicitly says "stop putting your personal shit in the work display", you obey or be fired. Even if it's a better cake, or your at-home tools are better.
- scoopertrooper 5y agoHow would this play out if you were a baker?
- varjag 5y agoIt would work fine, bakers are allowed to cook at home.
- johannes1234321 5y agoWhat about the baker baking at home and then selling his cake? Selling it to potential/ex customers of the bakery?
- varjag 5y agoWas the source code in question sold?
- johannes1234321 5y agoNo, it was given out for free, so competitors can take it and put it into their products for free.
- fractionalhare 5y agoThe analogy is a little fraught. If a baker bakes at home it's ostensibly not for public consumption. If you work at IBM you could literally code at home too. This is more like a baker baking things at home, and giving them away for free under their own shingle. That still lacks the nuance of software scalability and licensing but it's a little closer.
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- comeonseriously 5y agoIf you burn yourself and go to the emergency room is it worker's comp?