I turned down an offer from a company in ML and AI space recently. Why? Because despite being Open Source itself, one of the conditions was that I will not be allowed to do Open Source contributions anywhere else while I am an employee. Seriously? Not trading my freedom! Tweet added by Tanay Mehta @serious_mehta

Tanay Mehta

2 years

I turned down an offer from a company in ML and AI space recently. Why? Because despite being Open Source itself, one of the conditions was that I will not be allowed to do Open Source contributions anywhere else while I am an employee. Seriously? Not trading my freedom!

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Yash

@yashgyy

2 years

@serious_mehta awesome :)

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@yashgyy Thank you!

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Ruchi Bhatia 👩‍💻

@ruchi798

2 years

@serious_mehta That is against the spirit of the community 😠 Glad you didn't opt for it, Tanay!

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@ruchi798 Thanks, Ruchi! This really was shocking coming from an Open Source company. So against the Open Source spirit.

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Kush Shrimali

@kushashwa

2 years

@serious_mehta 🤎🤎 You will do great! Good Luck buddy...

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@kushashwa Thanks Kush ✨

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Balaji Varatharajan

@BalajiAI

2 years

@serious_mehta Freedom is the only wealth. You've made a right choice.

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@BalajiAI Thanks for cementing that!

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orrboy.cosmos

@0rrboy

2 years

@serious_mehta A step in the right direction. I feel you'll be blessed with a better opportunity soon cause you stuck to your morals. Open source FTW... (Fix The World)!!

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@0rrboy YESS!

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Abhinav Prakash

@NeurlAP

2 years

@serious_mehta Redhat? Huggingface?

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@NeurlAP It's not a good idea to name-guess companies here. If I wanted to name the company I would've added the name in the initial tweet.

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Manish Sharma 📊 - e/acc 🤖

@lucifer_x007

2 years

@serious_mehta You are following @Stanford 's Motto " The Wind of Freedom Blows "

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@lucifer_x007 @Stanford OPEN SOURCE FTW!

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Awsaf

@awsaf49

2 years

@serious_mehta Great decision

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Tanay Mehta

@serious_mehta

2 years

@awsaf49 Thanks!

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Kyle Cordes

@kylecordes

2 years

@serious_mehta Many companies will reduce that to "can't work on outside projects in the same field as our project" if a prospective employee pushes back.

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