[Random-bits] Brett Glass question to me on Conflict of Interest

[James Love]

Brett Glass has asked if I have a conflict of interest in Linux, because
I have a "close relative" of is the CEO of a Linux company.  Well, I do
have a cousin, Ransom Love, who is the CEO of Caldera Systems.  And, my
mother owns 400 shares of Caldera Systems, valued yesterday at $3,650. 
She also owns stock in Microsoft and several other companies, through
mutal funds, and most of my immediate family lives in the Seattle area,
where the Microsoft monopoly has been a boon to the local economy.  
Jamie

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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:24:29 -0600
To: Vergil Bushnell <vbushnell@cptech.org>, roundtable@cni.org,
        ecommerce@venice.essential.org, random-bits@venice.essential.org
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: [Random-bits] July 20 E-commerce Roundtable Update

   [snip]

It is interesting that your organization continues to push Linux rather
than alternative operating platforms which are not part of Mr. Richard
Stallman's effort to destroy legitimate business via predatory tactics.
Government offices should most certainly NOT embrace software which is
licensed under a regime whose purpose is to destroy American businesses.

Is it true that Mr. James Love, of your organization, has a close
relative 
who is the CEO of a Linux company and therefore has a conflict of
interest
in this area?

--Brett Glass