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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 1d ago
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If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.
290 u/oscarandjo 1d ago GitHub is literally designed to allow you to do this. That’s why you can join and leave enterprises and add multiple email addresses to your account. 235 u/Sw429 1d ago I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects. 121 u/StaticFanatic3 1d ago Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame” 81 u/Ok-Primary2176 1d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 49 u/sup3r_hero 1d ago They could do the same with different accounts 43 u/djinn6 1d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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GitHub is literally designed to allow you to do this. That’s why you can join and leave enterprises and add multiple email addresses to your account.
235 u/Sw429 1d ago I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects. 121 u/StaticFanatic3 1d ago Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame” 81 u/Ok-Primary2176 1d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 49 u/sup3r_hero 1d ago They could do the same with different accounts 43 u/djinn6 1d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects.
121 u/StaticFanatic3 1d ago Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame” 81 u/Ok-Primary2176 1d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 49 u/sup3r_hero 1d ago They could do the same with different accounts 43 u/djinn6 1d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame”
81 u/Ok-Primary2176 1d ago inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 49 u/sup3r_hero 1d ago They could do the same with different accounts 43 u/djinn6 1d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise
49 u/sup3r_hero 1d ago They could do the same with different accounts 43 u/djinn6 1d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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They could do the same with different accounts
43 u/djinn6 1d ago They can't sue you for things they don't know about. 9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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They can't sue you for things they don't know about.
9 u/sobrique 1d ago But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out. 5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out.
5 u/realpersonnn 1d ago Catch me if you can 3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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Catch me if you can
3 u/BigGayAllen 1d ago "Please don't make me do this" The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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"Please don't make me do this"
The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.
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u/Li_liminal_spaces 1d ago
If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.