Re: Non-Compete Challenges for Community Work

On Mon, 8 Dec 2025 at 14:20, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> > Agreed - and companies like pgEdge and EDB have policies and often
> employment contracts that specifically encourage contributions.
>
> I'm kind of surprised by the direction of this conversation, because
> I'm aware of some problematic cases. Even if none of us were, that
> wouldn't mean that there are no problems. People are going to be
> understandably reluctant to discuss their terms of employment
> publicly.
>

I don't think she's wrong - I just think the issue is much smaller than
suggested and that there are likely better places to spend time, effort,
and money at the moment (such as, I believe, the average age of our
contributors being on the rise). More and more jurisdictions seem to be
banning non-competes (or regularly ruling against them) for employees, so
it seems to me that the problem is slowly going away anyway.

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