Personal note to David Berlind

Dunn has resigned. Is that enough to let Hurd and the rest of the board off the hook?

Dunn has resigned. Is that enough to let Hurd and the rest of the board off the hook?

Did you read the NYTimes today…..Hewlett is projected to bring in $91.2 billion in revenue this year — enough to make it the largest technology company in the world.

Um…

It’s DAVID Berlind.

The Daniel is Farber.

Hey, it’s an honor to be confused with Dan Farber.

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Egg on face. Sorry about that David. Fixed that.

John: no. The whole board, the CEO, and the ethics officer need to go. The smell from this whole thing has just spread too far to contain to Patricia Dunn.

Aren’t you beating a dead horse? The president of your country is in the middle of running a FUD campaign that argues that the GENEVA CONVENTION is an outdated document that is too vague to be honored and you think it is more important to spend 3 weeks blogging about some exec who hired over-zealous private investigators to find a snitch on her board of directors.

I can understand the mainstream tech press harping on this because some of their own were the targets of the investigation, but why are you wasting so much digital ink on this?

I met Robert at the office just as I returned with the audio from the press conference at HP. Hopefully they’ll be a few details (minimal, as I’m on deadline to file the story) in his blog post.
You’ll read it from him, and hear it from us, on http://www.podtech.net/news, shortly.
Catherine Girardeau, Managing Editor, PodTech News

I agree with the board part Robert. But, the CEO I don’t think has any role in it. Seems he didn’t know much about it. The others most certainly are responsible.

Dare: because I cover tech and I live in Silicon Valley. I don’t cover Washington DC. I also want to send a message to all other corporate boards that they better hold our private data sacrosanct. Hands off. Don’t even think of coming near it. I don’t care what the reason is.

Corporations have too much power over our lives as it is. I don’t want to grant them even more.

samcollins: did you read the email that implicated him? I did. If his hands are demonstrated to be clean of this, I’ll apologize. But the smell goes outside the boardroom on this one. Employees were involved. Ethics officers who worked for Hurd were involved. Lawyers outside the company were involved.

I don’t see how he is clean here.

I agree it is a complete breakdown of ethics, but then that is also true of the audience that laughed with Dunn as she attempted to laugh it all off with the Pope aside. So thank you and others for standing up to this nonsense and calling them out. We should all do that when we see something is wrong

Maybe techbloggers paying so much attention to this issue, so that they don’t have to pay attention to the Patrick Fitzgerald issue. Similar dynamics, but the latter is far more serious.