Re: Non-Compete Challenges for Community Work

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Umair Shahid <umair(dot)shahid(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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: 2025-12-09 16:42:07
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Hi,

On 2025-12-08 09:20:18 -0500, Robert Haas 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.

Seconded. I'm also aware of quite a few cases. I'm rather surprised to hear so
many others not having seen problems - IME it's a rather substantial portion
of job changes that run into problems around non-competes.

Sure, in most cases the non-competes are not in the end not going to be
legally enforceable. But it's going to cost a lot of lawyer time to go to that
point, and most are going to do their best to stay far away from the legal
system.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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