On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.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.
