[advocacy-discuss] LinkedIn OpenSolaris Group

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote:

>
>> A linkedin is all about building and maintaining  relationships and
>> linkedin groups are to indicate an interest in a topic or membership in
>> an organization.  We could use the same model that the CISSP's use which
>> is if your a member, then yes, if your not no... , but here's how you
>> join....
>>
>> Increases the awareness of OpenSolaris.org as a resource and a
>> community, and could draw into it additional Opensolaris-jobs traffic...
>>
>> my $.02,
>
> Let me add a nickle to that.
>
> Should we let in the tele-marketers too ? I think they are the same ilk as
> the head hunters.

Sure, but playing devil's advocate here, do we not allow head hunters? Oh, 
and let's not forget telemarketers, and folks with email servers in 
specific countries, and fat people, oh, and skinny people...were do we 
end?

I am half tongue in cheek here, but if you have a free and open society, 
shouldn't it be open to all? I am with everyone as far as not wanting 
anymore spam, but this won't stop anyone from harvesting our email 
addresses one of many ways if they want to.

And let's say that someone did get a job where the headhunter netted 20% 
of the contract for sitting on their @$$, that happens all the time in our 
industry, but would that be bad? Would it be bad that headhunters find 
interest in OpenSolaris and/or are scouting for engineers to fill those 
slots? It's all food for thought, again, I'm really playing devil's 
advocate but haven't heard anything reasonable yet on why we shouldn't 
allow some of these folks to join the group that Jim created.

"Open" is a double edge sword, IMO.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group