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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:15:49 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, allenc@verinet.com (Allen Campbell)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: This is stupid
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At 01:02 PM 3/17/2000 , Brad Knowles wrote:

>         You haven't been listening, have you?  Perhaps some businesses don't implement them correctly, but plenty do.  It all depends on the company, the nature of the contracts that are signed requiring the Chinese walls, etc....

I've never seen one that really worked to prevent conflicts of interest. Besides,
a "Chinese wall" implies that there are different people on each side of the
wall. In this case, board members of the FreeBSD Foundation would be the
SAME PEOPLE who made important strategic decisions for direct competitors
of the companies involved. No go.

--Brett Glass



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