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Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
- elric 4y agoWhere are you from? Is it common for an employer to be able to regulate what you do when you're not on the clock?
- Jtsummers 4y agoNope. I've even had them pay my membership costs for ACM and IEEE and various SIGs or Societies within them. Why wouldn't they want you to participate, even passively, in these organizations?
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoI meant ANSI, ITU, ISO standards committee involvement or publishing RFCs on your own time without their name attached to yours. I can understand not using their name without permission.
- LeFantome 4y agoBecause they do not want you to submit their proprietary tech as an open standard. In the extreme, think about submitting .NET to ECMA. Something lighter might be a proprietary image format or interchange method. Engineers may find this useful. It may be at the request of a significant customer. It may even be in the best interest of the company. It does not mean senior management will agree though.
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoMAANG+M. They want control.
- bigbillheck 4y agoACM is a professional organization, not a standards body.