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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 11:42:07 -0500
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Umair Shahid <umair.shahid@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Non-Compete Challenges for Community Work
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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@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.

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