u/quartz-crisis wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yeah so I think what Phil said is that they will provide a reference for the dates you are in Codesmith that you were also at Open Source Labs for that time, not necessarily that you worked at your OSP for that time. Probably how they get around it because you are technically p
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Yeah but do you sign any paperwork that you are part of OSLabs or that you are admitted to it?
I volunteered for a number of charities and you always have to sign paperwork.
Otherwise your IP contributions are ambiguous. If you aren't just committing open source code but are a part of OSLabs, then your contributions to the projects they own (regardless of open source or not, they own them) need clear IP ownership.
If they aren't educating you on how open source really works, then you arent being prepared to use open source properly on the job either. I learned all this almost immediately st Facebook and many friends learn about it too at their companies. If you are going to be a mid-level or senior engineer and you aren't learning this stuff, that is a major hole.
Codemsith can't have it bofh ways. If they want to use open source to accelerate people then do right... otherwise it's all marketing and you aren't learning anything about open source and just learning how to market yourself as an open source engineer.
This sounds pedantic but we have a fleet of silicon valley lawyers and all of this stuff comes up in due diligence... and Codemsith doesn't have investors who require them to have due diligence so that's probably why this hasn't come up.