User group liaison

[James Knott]

cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:

> Corporate liability is indeed a big question.
> 
> If someone is to be the "mouthpiece of Novell", or for IBM, or for any
> other such organization, it is needful for them to be a formal
> representative of the corporation in question.
> 
> This fairly much mandates that they be an employee of the corporation.
> 
> If they aren't, then this introduces the substantial business risk that
> a "representative" that they do not have control over may utter
> statements that introduce liability to the corporation.

That occasionally happened, back in the "Team OS/2" days.


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