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    Hi Chris,<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/10/2022 13:15, Chris Sherlock
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      On 22 Oct 2022, at 9:36 pm, Paolo Vecchi <<a
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                      action was driven by members of the board with a
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                      Conflict of Interest (CoI) on just this topic.<br
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                      style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">This is just
                      another way of attempting to exclude everybody you
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                      style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The way you
                      define COI, everybody involved with LibreOiffce
                      has a conflict of interest, so nobody should be
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              Andreas actually didn't define what a CoI is, laws and
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      Hi Paolo, 
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      <div class="">So that I can understand correctly, and as an
        outside party, are you alleging there *was* a conflict of
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    I'm not all alleging anything at all.<br>
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    I've simply described an hypothetical situation and reported an
    article I've recently read reporting the changes happening in the US
    market where having directors shared with multiple organisation with
    different interests seemed to be the norm.<br>
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    There have been long, and still ongoing, discussions where different
    points of view have been shared and I've simply shared mine.<br>
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    Being the president of a non profit association I know what rules I
    have to apply where I live but other countries might have slightly
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    Ciao<br>
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    Paolo<br>
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Paolo Vecchi - Member of the Board of Directors
The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE
Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts
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