Re: Re: [HACKERS] My new job

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> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>
> > > It is merely a conflict of interest issue.  Same issue in law as having
> > > attorney's from the same firm on the side of defendant and plaintiff.  If
> > > the plaintiff is a multi-million dollar client and the defendant is
> > > pro-bono... there is concern about bias.
> > >
> > > Congratulations is in order for Mr. Momjian.  I'm not saying he should or
> > > shouldn't work for them.  I'm just playing devil's advocate.
> >
> > The interesting issue here is that law firms by nature are adviserial.
> > My paper showed that most issues are actually ones of companies managing
> > a shared resource, so the analogy is not quite accurate.
>
> OTOH, Red Hat, Inc. employs most of the gcc developers and by far the
> most GDB developers(80-90% of commits). There are still mechanisms in
> place to hinder that we have any sort of control over these...

Yes, as I said in my paper, controlling it is actually against the best
interests of the company.

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