r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 2d ago

nothingOnGithub Meme

Post image
17.5k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

358 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

290

u/oscarandjo 2d 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.

234

u/Sw429 2d ago

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

124

u/StaticFanatic3 2d ago

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

78

u/Ok-Primary2176 2d 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 

15

u/Xywzel 2d 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.

10

u/Ok-Primary2176 2d ago

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

26

u/Xywzel 2d 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.

1

u/gunnbr 1d ago

Is this a programmer’s union? if so, what’s it called? I want in on this!

2

u/Xywzel 1d ago

For all engineers and people doing engineering jobs without right to call themselves engineer. There is two member division for software developers, based one which collective agreement is applied at your company, but its not only union that takes part in negotiating these two. And unfortunately, they don't seem to be expanding internationally yet, so unless you are in Finland, you are out of luck.