On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:50:23 -0600, Felipe Contreras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robinson Tryon > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It sounds like both Intel and Nokia are quite supportive of FOSS > > projects such as MeeGo. Even if your corporate overlords would > > ordinarily be resistant to a division or project group running their > > own email server, a reasonable argument could be made that having the > > necessary autonomy in matters of development environment, email, > > etc... would be beneficial to the overall success of the MeeGo project > > and would allow you to work more efficiently and quickly. > > Yes, it's very easy to make things work properly. The problem is > bureaucracy; trying to change anything IT related done in Nokia is > like fighting an iceberg; It doesn't matter how many people fight it > at the same time, it just would not freaking move. > > Anyway, the reason I send mails from my Gmail address is not because > of M$ Exchange issues, but because I'm not speaking as a Nokia > employee, but as a community member, and in my own free time actually.
That's an interesting concept, by the way. Because the question could be asked if you are actually ever objective and independent of Nokia in your thoughts and opinions. I'll create an example to illustrate, and to avoid insulting anyone, I'll take myself as an example. Imagine [email protected] would start posting messages here that said things like "the AMD guys are a bunch of losers, they don't contribute and therefore we should actively prohibit MeeGo from ever running on their hardware" (I am obviously taking an extreme position here to make this more clear, but the same logic applies which much more subtle things - imagine I'm sending patches that make the system boot much slower on a non-Intel CPU). How would you feel if you later found out that I work for Intel, but I didn't disclose this in the mails from [email protected]. There may be people who think that's ok - Intel business ethics rules are very clear about this. If our participation is even remotely related to our job, then we need to disclose our affiliation. Other companies may have other business ethics rules and that's ok. I'm not asking to extend Intel's rules to anyone else. I'm just explaining how the rules work for Intel people. I repeat - I am NOT proposing a rule for MeeGo that people need to disclose their affiliation. Sometimes I think that would be a good idea, but that's up to the individual participant (and their employers' rules). /D -- Dirk Hohndel Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
