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On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 10:27 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> This only works if everyone gets that treatment.  It can work -- look
> at Eben getting funding for the SFLC with no sponsor representation.
> However, you might expect sponsors trying to influence selection in
> other ways -- for example, pushing to have their employees as members
> of the program committee.

Not necessarily ... you can also work on a group by persuading one
person to exhibit the desired behaviour and then going around all the
others asking them if they'd like to follow suit.

James