On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Magnus Boman wrote:
>> Can a Novell employee vote against his employer? to be fired?
> Yes, a Novell employee can go against his employer and no, I don't
> think they will be fired for it. I can not guarantee that off course.
When there is a vote like this, Novell employees are supposed to
vote according to the best of their knowledge. As are those not
employed by Novell!
I'm really not sure what "going against his employer" means in this
context. It's not that there is this Mrs. Eve L. Novell sitting in a
dungeon in Nürnberg/Provo/Waltham who controls all of us like string
puppets. As with any large organization, there are many parties, often
with different points of view or at least facets. The majority of those
actually relevant communicate here in the open with the community or are
directly connected with those of us who are. And as Coolo or Michl or
anybody else in AJ's or my team can surely attest, making openSUSE
successful is an explicit objective everyone has received for this
year! So, the only way to go against his or her employer would be
to actively hurt openSUSE. Not very likely, uhmm? :-)
> So should all non-Novell employees have to disclose where they work,
> what interest their employer might have in openSUSE, SLE or anything
> else that the board might be able to influence?
For candidates I would expect this, but certainly not for voters. Very
fair point, Magnus.
"Hi, my name is Bill. I made a bit of money in software during the last
two decades, but now I am unemployed. I have experience serving on the
board of my previous company and understand your users have many windows
which I have a long history with, so with Open Source on the uptake, how
about if I serve on the openSUSE board as an independent candidate?"
Gerald
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