Re: Non-Compete Challenges for Community Work

From: Umair Shahid <umair(dot)shahid(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Cornelia Biacsics <cornelia(dot)biacsics(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Non-Compete Challenges for Community Work
Date: 2025-12-08 11:43:23
Message-ID: CAM184Afu+rcc-eVfc4nTMNDcyjAQcopFd4hygU+UZtW70d6xtQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM Cornelia Biacsics <
> cornelia(dot)biacsics(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 1. Do you see this as an issue the PostgreSQL community should
>> discuss?
>>
>> No. I've seen no examples of this. The Postgres ecosystem is thriving,
> and people jump jobs from one employer to another with no friction right
> now.
>

+1

I have not seen any examples of non-compete clauses that prevent the person
from contributing to PostgreSQL. The clauses that I have seen & experienced
are designed to prevent poaching.

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