That's an issue of public funds not an issue of professionalism. Standards are rightly higher in the public sector. There was, I would imagine, never any question of people not being allowed to have those jackets but the regulations are such that a ruling was necessary.
This is motivated by politics as much as ethics; people do not like paying taxes and want to be as certain as they can be that projects that spend money raised in this fashion are not doing it from any other motivation than the desire to serve. The fact that these jackets *were* allowed would tend to weaken rather than strengthen your argument against MVPs. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Deckler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 December 2003 18:22 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Greg's Utterly Fascinating Views on Ethics I've argued the theory on this too many times now. Let me provide a specific example. At time, I wear a Novell leather jacket. I received this jacket at the end of a project for the State of Ohio. Basically, the State of Ohio gave Novell something like $1 million for implementing a G-NOC. I worked on this project and at the end Novell gave out about 50 of these leater jackets to people that worked on the project in this big huge ceremony that was held. The director at the State of Ohio was forced to resign over accepting his leather jacket because of conflict of interest rules. So, the State of Ohio had ALREADY paid Novell ALL of the money and THEN Novell gave out these gifts and the director at the State of Ohio was STILL found to have violated conflict of interest rules. Does that make anything more clear? The information contained in this e-mail is intended for the recipient or entity to whom it is addressed. It may contain confidential information that is exempt from disclosure by law and if you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any act in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete from your system. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
