If you work for #IBM, you're not allowed to use your personal email for anything not involving IBM

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k

"As an IBM employee, you are not allowed to use your gmail account to work in any way on VNIC. You are not allowed to use your personal email account as a "hobby". You are an IBM employee 100% of the time. Please remove yourself completely from the maintainers file. I grant you a 1 time exception on contributions to VNIC to make this change."

A boring dystopia

@cypnk @ekaitz_zarraga I would just have told them that I’m not working at IBM and that it’s a different person.

@louiscouture @ekaitz_zarraga I have replied to a former employer's vaguely threatening email about a side project (which had nothing to do with them and wasn't tied to my public identity) by CCing their legal department and the CEO. When they brought it up at work, I laughed and asked what they were talking about

Subject was quietly dropped

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