Re: Non-Compete Challenges for Community Work

On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 9:54 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> I don't think she's wrong - I just think the issue is much smaller than suggested and that there are likely better places to spend time, effort, and money at the moment (such as, I believe, the average age of our contributors being on the rise). More and more jurisdictions seem to be banning non-competes (or regularly ruling against them) for employees, so it seems to me that the problem is slowly going away anyway.

It's all a bit related, though. Older, more established contributors
are more likely to have leverage that they can use to preserve their
employment options, or the resources to get through a period of
unemployment or under-employment. Younger or less well-established
contributors are more likely to get pushed out of the community by an
adverse event (such as an employer or ex-employer with a good lawyer).