@bshah The first sentence does make sense and I think is a quote from the policy. The second sentence does not and I'm sure is line manager's interpretation. I had the same challenge once in my company but I escalated to arch board & people advocate (within company) and got it confirmed that I can do opensource outside of company and not on intersecting products (so yes, I wouldn't be able to contribute to vnic here, but would to some other subsys/driver where I don't code as employee).