On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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].
I like to think of myself as a person capable if independent thinking. I know what are Nokia's interests, and I know what are my interests. Also, I have participated in the open source community long before I started working in Nokia, and if I switch company, my personal interests would not change. So, when I say "this is my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with Nokia", I expect people to believe it. In fact, more often than not, when participating in the open source community, I disregard Nokia's interests (or rather; what my managers have told me are Nokia's interests). IOW, I I'm a "community guy", and which company I'm working for at this particular moment is irrelevant, and I know plenty of people like that; @ti.com, @collabora.co.uk, @nokia.com, @linux.com, etc. And BTW, LKML doesn't require any "company disclosure". -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
