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Not FAANG but Red Hat employees can contribute to open source on their own time — even if it competes with something that Red Hat makes.
by stbenjam 5y ago
Not FAANG but Red Hat employees can contribute to open source on their own time — even if it competes with something that Red Hat makes.
- ianai 5y agoIs that still true, post-IBM?
- redsaz 5y agoCan confirm this is still true, yes.
- unmole 5y agoDoes Red Hat even make proprietary software? I thought the business model was to open source everything and charge for enterprise support and cloud services?
- stbenjam 5y agoRight, it's all open source, but you could be making after-work contributions to open source projects that might not be in the interest of Red Hat, and that's perfectly fine. The policy is public: https://www.redhat.com/licenses/RH_CoC-June_2020_Eng.pdf https://www.redhat.com/licenses/RH_CoC-June_2020_Eng.pdf "Participation in an open source community project, whether maintained by the Company or by another commercial or non-commercial entity or organization, does not constitute a conflict of interest even where you may make a determination in the interest of the project that is adverse to the Company’s interests." A lot of employees were concerned about losing this after the IBM acquisition, but the former CEO made a lot of promises to us especially to protecting our autonomy, and (so far) IBM has kept those commitments to us. I cannot imagine a more open source friendly place to work. I'm constantly surprised by how other companies operate open source projects or treat their employees who want to contribute to them (at work or otherwise). Unfortunately as Red Hat gets larger, we hire more people without that love of open source and they want to do things differently, but thankfully they don't get much traction.