Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 13:18:36 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IA64: Back on topic Message-ID: <19990716131836.43908@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990716115630.047b7ba0@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Jul 07, 1999 at 11:58:39AM -0600 References: <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990716162507$5a6c@fish.pcs> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/4.2.0.58.19990716093234.047583c0@localhost> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/4.2.0.58.19990716093234.047583c0@localhost> <local.mail.freebsd-chat/19990716181736.29991@ns.int.ftf.net> <4.2.0.58.19990716115630.047b7ba0@localhost>
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On Jul 07, 1999 at 11:58:39AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 12:54 PM 7/16/99 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > >Why not? You go to Intel and say: > > > > "I'm a FreeBSD developer, and would like to create a > > port of FreeBSD for Merced." > > And they say, "What position do you hold in the organization? > Are you signing this NDA on behalf of yourself or on behalf > of the entire organization? If you're working on your own, > how do we know that the organization will accept your work? > How do you know that they won't leak material covered by the > NDA?" And you answer: 1. The position is `developer', which indicates that engineering work is done on behalf of FreeBSD. 2. The NDA applies only to yourself. 3. There is no guarantee that the organization will accept your work. This is no different than signing an NDA with a corporation; there is no guarantee that the corporation will actually ship a product. 4. Moot point. If you're covered by an NDA, you can't submit it to the organization. If you want to share it with other developers, they have to sign an NDA too. Again, this isn't much different than a corporation, where each employee who is working on NDA code must sign the NDA agreement. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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