> That doesn't make it not a hobby though. IBM has contractual power (unfortunately) to control their employees outside conributions, but it's philosophically d

> That doesn't make it not a hobby though. IBM has contractual power (unfortunately) to control their employees outside conributions, but it's philosophically dangerous extend that contractual control to re characterize what it means to contribute to Linux on your own time. Again, we don't have the context. It sounds like something an exasperated manager might write if an employee is told not to work on it anymore and they change it to their personal email and say they're going to work on it as a "hobby".