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From: Jack J. Woehr <jwoehr@...>
To: OpenBSD <misc@...>
Subject: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 12:44 pm

A professional peer of mine wrote the following article:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23417

which contains the following paragraph:

    Google's hired great open source developers from projects like
    Linux, Firefox, Samba and Apache.
    They all still have ties back into those projects. Now these key
    hires can help influence open source
    development projects that happen to indirectly benefit Google. Plus,
    open source developers would
    love to help improve their projects and displace Microsoft. A win-win.

I'd like to ask the community what they think: Is the hiring of open 
source star coders in expectation of
ancillary benefit from their influence in Open Source projects a win-win 
form of "voting with your
feet" or is it an ethical conflict? I'm curious how we all see this.

-- 
Jack J. Woehr
Director of Development
Absolute Performance, Inc.
jwoehr@absolute-performance.com
303-443-7000 ext. 527
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Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Jack J. Woehr, (Thu Jan 3, 12:44 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Jan 3, 8:08 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Ioan Nemes, (Thu Jan 3, 9:48 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Lars Hansson, (Fri Jan 4, 12:42 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question , Theo de Raadt, (Fri Jan 4, 2:31 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Paul de Weerd, (Fri Jan 4, 6:41 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Alexander Terekhov, (Sat Jan 5, 11:41 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Alexander Terekhov, (Sat Jan 5, 12:27 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Richard Stallman, (Sun Jan 6, 6:46 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Eric Furman, (Tue Jan 8, 2:16 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Siju George, (Sun Jan 6, 8:33 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Richard Stallman, (Mon Jan 7, 12:18 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Eric Furman, (Tue Jan 8, 3:27 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, bofh, (Wed Jan 9, 8:41 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Denis Doroshenko, (Sat Jan 12, 8:50 pm)
Way OT:Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Qu..., Eric Furman, (Thu Jan 10, 1:00 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Ted Unangst, (Wed Jan 9, 9:45 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, bofh, (Wed Jan 9, 10:19 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, ropers, (Sat Jan 12, 12:26 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Siju George, (Mon Jan 7, 9:46 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Sunnz, (Mon Jan 7, 12:04 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Alexander Terekhov, (Sun Jan 6, 7:52 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, dermiste, (Fri Jan 4, 7:47 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Lars Hansson, (Sat Jan 5, 6:02 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Todd Alan Smith, (Fri Jan 4, 9:36 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, L, (Sat Jan 5, 12:14 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Todd Alan Smith, (Sat Jan 5, 2:15 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, L, (Sat Jan 5, 2:31 am)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Jeremy Huiskamp, (Thu Jan 3, 10:27 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Douglas A. Tutty, (Thu Jan 3, 10:42 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Ted Unangst, (Thu Jan 3, 6:42 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Jack J. Woehr, (Thu Jan 3, 8:09 pm)
Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question, Douglas A. Tutty, (Thu Jan 3, 5:35 pm)