RE: Discussing issues

"Rich Murphey" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kendall Bennett
> > Even David 
> > Dawes, the leader and chairman of the XFree86 BOD has vested interests
> 
> > based on the company he works for and the companies he does contract 
> > development for.
> 
> You refer to David's having a commercial vested interest, do you
> have anything concrete to base this on, or is this on the basis
> that his employment is analogous? 

Yes, of course. David is one the co-founders of Tungsten Graphics and is 
listed as the current Senior Architect there. Tungsten Graphics does 
contract driver development for companies such as Intel for their latest 
graphics chipsets like the i845 and i865. As as the Senior Architect I 
assume David has responsibility for overseeing this development, if not 
being himself directly involved in the coding. That is an assumption, of 
course.

Regardless he is a founder of Tungsten Graphics and hence a co-owner I 
imagine (since founders generally own a percentage of companies they 
found). Tungsten gets paid real money to develop XFree86 drivers on 
behalf of companies like Intel. That is a commercially vested interest in 
my book.

But as I said before, everyone has some vested interest and many of us 
have commercially vested interests. There is nothing wrong with that, but 
lets not try to kid ourselves into believing that the only vested 
interests here are the 'outsiders' such as Keith Packard.

Regards,

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Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com

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