Microsoft employee fact

[Suzie]

Microsoft employee no can contribute open-source project!

http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/...x?Pending=true

"Jarrod: Nope, feel free :) Feel free to use my post as a reference in
the bug, but as a Microsoft employee I'm not allowed to contribute to
open source projects."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Jerry]

That is not entirely accurate

http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive...05/107709.aspx

[Peter Rilling]

I don't know Microsoft policy with regards to personal-time development, but
this might be a difference between a company sanctioned project and someone
doing development on their own time.

If Microsoft did have such as policy, I would be really surprised if it
could be enforced in a court of law. A company can only "own" a person for
the time that are at work and working on company projects. If someone does
development on their own, they [Microsoft] would have no right to prevent
the person from, say, posting their code on SourceForce. Now, obviously
where Microsoft might have a claim is if they post code that was developed
for other Microsoft projects on Microsoft time or the OpenSource project
directly competes with Microsoft.
"Jerry" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70**********************************@microsof t.com...

That is not entirely accurate.

http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive...05/107709.aspx