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The weird part is that IBM employees contribute to the kernel with personal email addresses all the time. I think this was one confused mid-level manager rathe
by corbet 5y ago
The weird part is that IBM employees contribute to the kernel with personal email addresses all the time. I think this was one confused mid-level manager rather than company policy at work unless things have changed quite recently.
- airhead969 5y agoSounds like an overzealous manager "respect my authoritah." I often find such people tend to be narcissistic trying to get control of other people because their own lack of internal sense of control. Edit: It isn't helpful for morale and makes employees want to leave whenever autonomy, purpose, social cohesion/community, and/or meaningfulness are threatened with, or actually, eliminated. I worked at a Big Name university academic dept where an insecure/inexperienced new manager postdoc came in and told the developers they're going to do X his way and they all immediately quit. And that classic video about motivation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWD2HdoZ7k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmWD2HdoZ7k
- bombcar 5y agoDo they contribute to the kernel with personal emails on IBM maintained projects? I could easily see a "We're IBM, we're going to maintain our IBM drive, here's the list of IBM maintainers" rule which would preclude a personal gmail account (especially if you were assigned OFF the project internally).