From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 17 16:18:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28261 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maki.wwa.com (maki.wwa.com [198.49.174.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28256 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wendigo.trans.sni-usa.com by maki.wwa.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uKYmX-000rJjC; Fri, 17 May 96 18:18 CDT Received: from vogon.trans.sni-usa.com (vogon.trans.sni-usa.com [136.157.83.215]) by wendigo.trans.sni-usa.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA19770; Fri, 17 May 1996 18:06:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from shyam.trans.sni-usa.com (shyam.trans.sni-usa.com [136.157.82.43]) by vogon.trans.sni-usa.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA02636; Fri, 17 May 1996 18:13:37 -0500 From: hal@snitt.com (Hal Snyder) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Companies who want NDAs Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:06:48 GMT Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Transportation Technologies Message-ID: <319d0506.12155856@vogon.trans.sni-usa.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 May 1996 10:31:16 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > Has anyone complied a list of companies who require NDAs and thus will > not have FreeBSD drivers made for them? I have been playing tag with Intel for several months regarding NDA over programmer's docs on their 10Mbps EtherExpress cards. Intel required NDA before releasing the 386/486 bug list back when I was at MWC. OTOH, they claim that if I sign NDA and write a driver, I can still publish source for it. We'll see... -- Hal Snyder 847-698-0300 x 523 (voice) 847-698-3212 (fax) Siemens Nixdorf Transportation Technologies http://www.snitt.com 6400 Shafer Ct, Suite 200, Rosemont, IL 60018