On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:04:01AM +1000, Ron Stodden wrote:
Another 9.2 showstopper!
Post it at: bugs.mandrakelinux.com
No. I have legally carried out my only duty - to notify MandrakeSoft, the owner of the cooker mailing list. To do that is all that can possibly be required.
It is not required of the public to know anything about MandrakeSoft�s internal structure or methods of working - it is their job to efficiently manage their internal communications. To the public, MandrakeSoft is a single legal entity, IOW in effect a single person.
That is true of all corporate entities, including the various government entities. So if I write a letter to George W Bush, then I am correct in assuming that all relevant groups and individuals operating below him will have received it and will co-ordinate a single comprehensive timely reply. The same would be true if I had written personally to the most humble counter clerk in a remote branch on a subject far removed from his/her daily operations - the corporation has been notified.
I know it�s not easy on corporations, but that�s the law, you know, and the law encapsulates accrued wisdom. It is hard to see how things could possibly be otherwise. The way things are wisely prevents the common accountability escape of deniability - no officer can deny knowledge of anything that happens within the corporation or level of government (�I did not know�, �Nobody told me� are not acceptable responses - they indicate a mentally diseased corporation - i.e. schizophrenic).
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