On Sunday 11 July 2010 05:51:16 ext Dirk Hohndel, you wrote: > > 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). > > Again, just speaking for Intel here - the corporate position is that > whatever I say reflects on Intel and could possibly be taken by the > press as an Intel statement. Whether I like that or not, whether I write > a disclaimer or not, doesn't matter. > > That is the key reason why we insist on disclosure. I'm happy for you > that Nokia apparently has different rules.
Nokia has similar rules to Intel as far as I know. Of course, they leave room for interpretation and are not strictly enforced (if at all enforceable). And, if you care to ask for clarifications on some corprorate policies, chances are you'll get a "This mailbox does not exist" error back (been there, done that). That being said, many Nokia employees doing OSS work _have_ to use non-Nokia addresses for reason already stated. I personally had problems with git-send- email as an example. Nevertheless, it seems like a good idea to cite one's corporate affiliation within one's signature. *Always*. On the one hand, it makes any potential conflict of interest self-evident. On the other hand, it puts some pressure on the author not to post anything in disagreement with his/her employer's position, which, while legal, is against employment policies (sic) and work ethics. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
