RE: Discussing issues

> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kendall Bennett
> "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.

Well, that is incorrect.  Just keep that in mind.

David's actions have always put the interests of the
project first, as did David Wexelblat and Dirk
Hohndel.  Some have had an explicit clause in their
employment contract stating that XFree86's interests
would take priority when there was a conflict of
interest.

Rich