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Carroll,
I respect your right to express your opinion, but... Perhaps you are not
aware of the issues at stake here...
Unless I am mistaken (and I bet dollars to doughnuts I am not), the person
who received this letter had signed a non-disclosure agreement [with Omega]
in order to be on the recipient list. In my estimation either 1) a signor
sent it to Mark in violation of his agreement or 2) Mark was a signor (I am
fairly certain that he was) and he violated that trust.
I have to stand behind my statement. If a consultant will do this to
Omega he will do it to anyone. Trust is trust. If I EVER violate that
trust I am through in this industry - all I will be able to do after that
is sell systems like any other snake oil salesman...
It does not matter whether you contract is with an individual or with a
corporation - a confidence is a confidence. If a consultant will divulge
the trade secrets of one associate I must assume he will divulge the trade
secrets of ANY associate. Being upset with a client does not in any way
remove the obligations of confidentiality. Period.
In my humble opinion...
Samuel
At 10:11 PM 05/05/99 , you wrote:
>Sam -
>
>I must respectfully disagree with you on this. If I had somehow gotten hold
>of a message from YOU to Omega, I would certainly have respected any request
>by you to keep the material confidential. But this was (apparently) a
>letter FROM Mitch (Omega) TO you.
>
>The relationship between list members and Omega is quite different from the
>relationship between you and me - there is a "contract" (and I don't mean
>
No. The relationship between two individuals is no different from the
relationship between an individual and a corporation or between two
corporations. You are WRONG there! That is an excuse, not a reason.
>
>the license agreement) between Omega and its customers and this "contract"
>obligates Omega to treat its customers fairly and reasonably. Many members
>of this list would insist that Omega has breached this implied contract and,
>in doing so, has forfeited any right to expect its wronged customers to
>respect requests from the Company.
>
>An additional consideration is that the subject matter of the letter is one
>of pressing concern to all customers of Omega, and a strong argument could
>be made that we ALL have a RIGHT to this information. The sin is that of
>Omega in NOT passing this information to ALL concerned customers.
>
>A final consideration is that there is nothing in the letter which could be
>considered proprietary to Omega - it reveals no trade secrets or marketing
>plans. It could be damaging to Omega's reputation, but in that respect it
>contains nothing which cannot be found in our List digests or on Mark's web
>site.
>
>Regards,
>Carroll Slemaker
>
Respecting ones wishes should be reason enough for each and every one of
us. We all need to meditate on this issue and see if we find ourselves
wanting. I have no doubt about this.
Samuel K. Tennis Vista Research
129 Staff Drive voice: 1(850) 243-5105
Ft. Walton Beach, FL 32548 fax: 1(850) 301-2884
skt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.vista-research.com/
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