Dorothea has an interesting post about tech employees being watched in their after hours activities and fired for working on other things. If you know any techies who are the type to work on Open Source projects, they tend to be the kind of employees that with little effort will be loyal, hardworking and productive forever. But it's probably a blessing because it's about the only thing that will get them to find work where they will be appreciated.

Ain't this depressing. (Nod to the Security Blog.) A salaried programmer had his job threatened because he worked on open-source software during his off-hours. But if you're salaried, there are no off-hours, it seems. This poor soul's employer told him to quit doing the open-source work or quit his job. He chose the former:

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