I agree. My analogy was more in describing the conflict of interest, not
necessarily the shared resource issue.
Again, I'm not trying to come off on the wrong end. Just many people seemed
to take the situation a little too easy and wondered why the issue even
would have come up. In some instances it really is an issue that groups
have to concern themselves with.
Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
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From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] My new job
> > It is merely a conflict of interest issue. Same issue in law as having
> > attorney's from the same firm on the side of defendant and plaintiff.
If
> > the plaintiff is a multi-million dollar client and the defendant is
> > pro-bono... there is concern about bias.
> >
> > Congratulations is in order for Mr. Momjian. I'm not saying he should
or
> > shouldn't work for them. I'm just playing devil's advocate.
>
> The interesting issue here is that law firms by nature are adviserial.
> My paper showed that most issues are actually ones of companies managing
> a shared resource, so the analogy is not quite accurate.
>
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