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| Authored by: jjs on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 08:54 PM EDT |
No, when the CEO of a company publicly announces a policy,
on an official company site (his blog was hosted on
sun.com), it's policy. That's part of the job description
of a CEO - to set policy. When it's backed up by
presentations at conferences, by welcoming Android, by
knowing about and not suing Harmony, it becomes policy.
Joe Random engineer is NOT the same as a CEO - his opinion
is his opinion. He does not set policy in most companies.
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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc,
etc)
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| Authored by: jvillain on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 09:08 PM EDT |
One would assume that the CEO speaks to counsel before making statements like
that to the world. An engineer commenting in a private internal email? Not so
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 09:10 AM EDT |
The CEO of a company is the one who tells the lawyers what to do. They work from
him.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT |
I refuse to grant the Lawyer Cabal a monopoly on legal thought. They may have a
monopoly on representing clients in court that does not render the rest of us
idiots incapable of rational thought.
In the last couple weeks I have had to tell ten lawyers in a deposition they we
asking a fact witness (me) to provide an expert opinion and in a different
matter send copies of statutes to clients and their lawyers (Because the Lawyers
said they were not familiar with e statue in question (available on line in a
few seconds). In my long experience, never advise their clients what to do
before a situation develops, they only tell them what they should have done
after the Stuff Hits The Fan.) all the while I was telling everyone involved not
only IANAL but IANYL, please get them involved.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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