On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:44:24PM +0200, Orna Agmon wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, E L wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:34:26 +0200 > > From: E L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Vaya research corp. > > > > Well let Vaya worry about that:) > > We should worry about hamakor:) > > This approach is misleading. Currently we are obligated to Hamakor alone. > But accepting the shares means we will be obligated to Vaya Research Corp. > as well. > > Picture the following scenario: > > Some company pushes a research which says that the Total Cost of Ownership > of FOSS is way higher than non-FOSS. > > Hamakor does a "Check the facts" campaign. Hamakor claims this research > was done by a researcher sponsored by this company, and brings results > from a research done/sponsored by Vaya.
This basically assumes that Hamakor has enough money to rig research. When this happens we'll start worrying. As things stand, Hamakor could hardly help finance OSDC. When you have money you have power. When you have money and some common interests, there will always be those who suspect you. > > The press makes a fool of Hamakor, and discredit Vaya's reputation, when > they show that Hamakor own part of Vaya. Reputation is something to gain. In the case of those infamous "market researches", there were numerous problems with them. Starting with the fact that the title under which the research was published was misleading and that only a selected few of the cunducted researches were actually published. And they were sponsored by big companies. In the example above, the sponsor is "that company". We know that that company has only published those results because it suits their interests. However we can review the methodology of the research and decide if the research's results are useful and if the published conclusions are indeed valid conclusions from those results. We can also try to replicate those results or apply any other sanity checks on them. Just because a newspaper headline says so does not make it true. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
