Former Googlers share experiences with Google's IP, open source policy - Business Insider

  • 📰 BusinessInsider
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 45 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 21%
  • Publisher: 51%

Россия Новости Новости

Россия Последние новости,Россия Последние новости

Google can claim rights over code that its employees write for outside projects, and former Googlers say this policy 'could potentially put' other projects at risk

, which was started by Google engineers and donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Still, former employees have said that they feel Google's policies may discourage them from contributing to open source projects. More often than not, Martin fixes random bugs on a variety of projects, and he says it can be impractical to go through this process for these small fixes. After that, Martin looked at his contract and said he found a logic loophole that he says technically allows him to contribute code to open source projects, as long as it was on his own equipment outside of business hours and not a result of his work at Google. 'It could potentially put the projects at risk'

After learning about these policies, he just decided not to contribute to those projects. He says he mostly wanted to make small code contributions, and going through Google's internal processes every time would create an "absurd amount of overhead."

 

Спасибо за ваш комментарий. Ваш комментарий будет опубликован после проверки

SAI Corporatism

Google which was funded by tax payer dollars was also stolen from a tax payers funded university - Google belongs to the American People. If needs to confiscated and the values distributed to the American People

Мы обобщили эту новость, чтобы вы могли ее быстро прочитать.Если новость вам интересна, вы можете прочитать полный текст здесь Прочитайте больше:

 /  🏆 729. in RU

Россия Последние новости, Россия Последние новости

Similar News:Вы также можете прочитать подобные новости, которые мы собрали из других источников новостей

Chris Lattner, former Apple and Google engineer, joins startup SiFive - Business InsiderChris Lattner, the legendary Apple engineer known for creating Swift, has joined the AI chip startup SiFive after stints at Google and Tesla.
Источник: BusinessInsider - 🏆 729. / 51 Прочитайте больше »

Google parent company's Toronto development to build timber high-rises - Business InsiderGoogle's parent company, Alphabet, has plans for a high-tech, affordable, and environmentally-friendly neighborhood along Toronto's waterfront. Us friendly neighborhood termites think is a super brilliant idea, ( we are carnivorous now, by the way, 😄) we really hate all kinds of wood. ( it gave us all stomach problems, ugh!).
Источник: BusinessInsider - 🏆 729. / 51 Прочитайте больше »