Re: [gentoo-project] Corporate affiliations of Council members

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 1:53 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 00:17 +0300, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote:
> > Am Montag, 22. Juni 2020, 21:56:06 EEST schrieb Alec Warner:
> > > I'm not sure why we would single out employment here; surely there are
> > > other potential relationships that could give rise to conflicts? Why are
> > > these excluded from disclosure?
> > >
> >
> > Because money is a powerful (and socially accepted) incentive.
> >
>
> To be honest, he's right.  Money is not specific to employment.  Imagine
> someone running a Gentoo fork, with its own community, donations or
> other source of income.  It's still money, still potential source of
> conflict, but not employment ;-).  Like when Gentoo implements something
> their distro boasted of, and now their users may choose vanilla Gentoo.

Most organizations have a policy around conflicts of interest (in part
because if you're 501c3 the IRS will ask you every year if you have
one).  Receiving money from an organization certainly is on that list.
Usually ownership, being on a board or being an officer in an org is
listed as well (which might cover this).  Family relationships with
people in those situations are also usually on the list.

Beyond that though I think that a lot of things that are considered a
"conflict of interest" around here are not considered conflicts in
most organization.  I've beaten that horse to death and I suspect my
opinion is in the minority on that point (within Gentoo, but not
outside of this org), so I'll leave it at that.


-- 
Rich