Even if the God Almighty wrote the order, man can breach it, if he will. I think it unrealistic something written down can prevent anyone to do something, either bad or good, deliberately.
Rather is it a matter of these: * If an organization (here WMF) must have a policy which dictate the affected party to do so-and-so and not to do so-and-so? What will this policy benefit the organization and the projects that org is running? * And if that is breached, what kind of sanctions must be legally posed and must not?
I say "must" - if that policy is something the org in question either may or may not have, something without which the org has no problem and won't, I strongly doubt if it is really a good idea to compose such ... but IANAL and may be too naive in this point.
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@verizon.net wrote:
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
I 100% agree about a code of conduct. A non-disparagement agreement will not stop someone from getting pissed off and throwing their burrito, but a code of conduct will; and it (code) will do so without hindering whistleblowing activities, or disrupting others' rights to free speech.
I guess I don't see how a code of conduct will stop someone from doing something when a non-disparagement agreement would not. Other than the name you give it, what's the difference? In the end, they're both just pieces of paper with somebody's signature on them.
--Michael Snow
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