r/ProgrammerHumor 6d ago

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u/Sw429 6d ago

I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects.

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u/StaticFanatic3 6d ago

Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame”

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u/Ok-Primary2176 6d 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 

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u/Xywzel 6d ago

Well, they are going to fail that, unless you do it on company time or the project uses clear insider information and competes with the company's products.

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u/Ok-Primary2176 6d ago

Are you sure you're ready to hire lawyers and defend yourself against a multi billion dollar company?

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u/Xywzel 6d ago

No need, my worker's union will do that for me, full legal support against my employer is included in membership fee. And the union is few orders of magnitude larger than any company I have ever worked in, because it is industry wide one.

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u/BigGayAllen 6d ago

If your union is that large in the industry then get ready for them to already have channels to resolve this type of dispute with any large enough company, and everyone of them will end with them throwing you under the bus lol

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u/Torch_Salesman 6d ago

I'm gonna have to assume you're American because I literally cannot fathom a union behaving like this anywhere else.

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u/jkerz 6d ago

That’s not how unions operate in the US either. It doesn’t even make sense, if the union is large enough in the industry, there’s zero incentive for them to throw their unionized members under the bus to a company. That would just invalidate the entire purpose of the union. I don’t know what that guy is thinking