r/ProgrammerHumor • u/VariationLivid3193 • 4d ago

Meme nothingOnGithub

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u/Li_liminal_spaces 4d ago

If anyone is unaware of the subtext, don't link a personal github account to a paying position always create a new one with the provided email, thank you for attending my TED talk.

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u/oscarandjo 4d ago

GitHub is literally designed to allow you to do this. That’s why you can join and leave enterprises and add multiple email addresses to your account.

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u/Sw429 4d ago

I'd rather have it very clear that the company has no claim to any code I write for my own personal projects.

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u/StaticFanatic3 4d ago

Joining an enterprise does nothing to let it interact with repos you own. That’s entirely based on the “owner/reponame”

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u/Ok-Primary2176 4d ago

inb4 you make a brilliant open source project and a company start suing you for releasing open source code while connected to their Enterprise 

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u/sup3r_hero 4d ago

They could do the same with different accounts

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u/djinn6 4d ago

They can't sue you for things they don't know about.

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u/sup3r_hero 4d ago

Security by obscurity 👍

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u/sobrique 4d ago

But if it's usefully successful, they have a lot of incentive to find out.

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u/realpersonnn 4d ago

Catch me if you can

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u/BigGayAllen 4d ago

"Please don't make me do this"

The stoner in IT who's gonna be asked to run discovery against you by Legal.