Re: Dell vs. GPL

[Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>]

JW,

You just took away all the fun to show people what they do not know and
how most people talk out their hat.

Cheers!

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, jw schultz wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:53:45AM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:48, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > The best solution is to forget what you see and know, is how the game is
> > > played.  When things are sent to me outside of the scope of NDA's and they
> > > effect my contributions is where I can free move.
> > > 
> > > Anything under NDA stays there regardless.
> > 
> > Andre,
> > 
> > I can see where you are coming from on this, but nevertheless, the NDA
> > is not enforcable if illegal activities are taking place. Ask your legal
> > council and they should be able to confirm this. If what you are fearing
> > is economical retaliation from the companies that made you sign an NDA
> > to ensure your silence, the legal system of US should protect you from
> > that.
> > 
> > All I can say, if US law require you to cover up illegal/criminal
> > activity because you signed an NDA, get the f*ck out of US jurisdiction
> > as fast as you can.
> 
> What Andre has neglected to state outright is that violating
> a licence AGREEMENT is not a crime.  It does not fall under
> the jurisdiction of criminal law.  It is a matter of
> contract law.  If you contend copyright violation, then you
> may have a claim although that is largely handled as a tort
> under civil, not criminal, jurisprudence.
> 
> 
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