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NDAs are not all the same

NDAs are not all the same

Posted Mar 5, 2007 15:57 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: NDAs are not all the same by gdt
Parent article: Free Software Foundation courts hardware vendors (Linux-Watch)

So what is needed is for OSDL, Linux Foundation and FSF( complicated here ? ) to write a NDA specification, establishing a legal and technical agreement, about clauses and possible interfaces included, with the hardware manufactors.

Everybody will win because Linux is a development platform *per excelence*. Too good to be ignored, and too heavy weight a software industry expertize and commercial power for not being considered.

It would be very nice to include FSF also, for its prestige and influence in the GCC tools, only if they could be more flexible. This "Driver" issue could have been resolved many years ago with more flexibility and mutual understanding. Now there is another excelent oportunity.


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