14 May
2025
14 May
'25
3:21 p.m.
On 5/14/2025 9:54 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Theodore
Ts'o wrote:
IBM did not give bonuses for publishing when I was there (1975-1989), so
if that stopped in 2005, it sounds like an aspect of the Gerstner era.
IBM when I was there strongly encouraged/rewarded patents, and formally
disclosing lesser innovations. There were also significant cash awards
for "Outstanding Innovations/Inventions," and annual corporate
recognition events celebrating those.
Charlie
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It's a lot more than that, though. I was at
IBM at that time, and at
IBM, right about then the bonus for getting for getting published at a
conference had gotten eliminated. It was very clear that as far as
IBM management was concerned, conference publication didn't matter.
If you filed a patent, you would get paid a cash bonus. If you submit
to any conference --- you wouldn't.
That's wild. To the best of my knowledge, Sun didn't give you a bonus
for either a paper or a patent, it was just part of the job. I certainly
never got a bonus for that stuff. They did pay expenses for conferences
but that was it.