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...
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
