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Something smelled fishy, so I did a bit of follow-up. This dude is leaving out a huge detail to make his employment troubles be a pivotal problem when...it's not.

Let's footnote a coupleo f his "Story of Pivotal The Employment"

> Hired

To contribute to Redis

> All My Work Is Owned by Another Employee? What?

The primary redis maintainer, not a pivotal employee?

> Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project

Let's misrepresent the philosophical position of the OS project maintainer on the best way to move the project forward.

> Two Days of Work to Clear 4 Years of Issues Ignored By The Creator Because Laziness

A bunc hof those issues have fundamental problems that the creator explicitly drilled into and explained (https://github.com/antirez/redis/pull/1906#issuecomment-5145...)

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Not disagreeing, just pointing out that Redis development was sponsored by Pivotal at the time, and antirez was presumably on their payroll: http://antirez.com/news/91

The response by antirez is professional and reasonable.

very interesting thread, I'm impressed with the depth of antirez's patience and goodwill.

hmmm, redis is a high profile open source project and sits in a pretty interesting spot in the world of software architecture. I'm sure lots of developers would love the opportunity to be paid $220k/year to contribute to redis. Not everyone of course, but it really doesn't sound like a bad gig.

> Let’s Organize Instead of Being A Hobby Project

What I also found odd in that section was that the poster apparently started a product strategy discussion with his coworker over Twitter.

It's an open source project, sure, but that doesn't strike me as a healthy approach.

I don’t understand. Does the fact that the author of the project in question is antirez change anything about the authors experience?

Given that they were tasked to contribute to a very popular open source project, the author may have been able to get past their perceptions of mismanagement at Pivotal. But part of their complaint seems to be that they were not able to contribute as much as they wanted. Different people adapt to such a situation in different ways.

If Antirez was an ‘employee’ at pivotal at the time, and was apparently very hard to work with (of course we only see one side here), them I can sort of understand the authors frustration.

If Pivotal hired someone to contribute to Redis who then wasn’t actually allowed to contribute, that’s even more silly.

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