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On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:53 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 00:17 +0300, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: |
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> > Am Montag, 22. Juni 2020, 21:56:06 EEST schrieb Alec Warner: |
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> > > I'm not sure why we would single out employment here; surely there are |
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> > > other potential relationships that could give rise to conflicts? Why are |
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> > > these excluded from disclosure? |
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> > Because money is a powerful (and socially accepted) incentive. |
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> To be honest, he's right. Money is not specific to employment. Imagine |
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> someone running a Gentoo fork, with its own community, donations or |
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> other source of income. It's still money, still potential source of |
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> conflict, but not employment ;-). Like when Gentoo implements something |
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> their distro boasted of, and now their users may choose vanilla Gentoo. |
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Most organizations have a policy around conflicts of interest (in part |
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because if you're 501c3 the IRS will ask you every year if you have |
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one). Receiving money from an organization certainly is on that list. |
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Usually ownership, being on a board or being an officer in an org is |
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listed as well (which might cover this). Family relationships with |
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people in those situations are also usually on the list. |
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Beyond that though I think that a lot of things that are considered a |
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"conflict of interest" around here are not considered conflicts in |
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most organization. I've beaten that horse to death and I suspect my |
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opinion is in the minority on that point (within Gentoo, but not |
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outside of this org), so I'll leave it at that. |
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