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Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy?

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"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote on 07/02/2025 at 17:41:41+0100:

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> At 2025-02-07T17:08:44+0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> I'm not sure I'd expect more from people than them saying who they
>> work for or defend.
>> 
>> I'd not, eg, expect some Canonical employee to refrain voting a GR
>> because they might be biased. We all are biased.
>
> I think this is a non sequitur.  Yes, we are all human (except for the
> LLM that wrote Charles's draft policy), and therefore we all have
> cognitive biases.
>
> That does _not_ imply that we all have conflicts of interest.
>
> Biases are often unconscious, whereas conflicts of interest are always
> known to the person who has them.

I don't think it's always clear to them.

But I get your point and I agree that there's a difference.

I'm not sure that, considering that we are around a 1000 people here, it
really is an issue.

-- 
PEB

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Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy? "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 17:50 +0100
  Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy? Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2025-02-08 01:10 +0100
    Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy? Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> - 2025-02-08 02:10 +0100
      Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy? Timo Röhling <roehling@debian.org> - 2025-02-08 10:00 +0100
  Re: Do we need a conflict of interest policy? "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2025-03-06 12:20 +0100

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