On Mar 15, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
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Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
The trouble I have here is that I like to believe that company affiliation is left at the door when it comes to governance, and is irrelevant when it comes to technology in that of your employer wants you to implement the Frooble Device driver, you implement it, as long as there aren't valid technical reasons not to.
Contrariwise, what if your employer wants you to discourage a particular
direction?
Leaving one's employer at the door is an ideal. Unfortunately, reality has this nasty habit of barging in and dropping phrases like 'undue influence' on the one side and 'worth your job' on the other.
A package that has only N developers, all of who work for the same company.. how reliable would anyone assume the practices of 'do it for the greater good' and 'don't implement it if there are problems' to be? Regardless of facts, there are likely to be perception issues.
Practical issues as well. On a number of projects that I've been involved
with, people switching jobs has meant their departure from the project.
Not conducive to a sustainable community.
Ted
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