From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262358AbTGANDP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:03:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262361AbTGANDP (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:03:15 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:35244 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262358AbTGANDM (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:03:12 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: <1057038825.7180.8.camel@lenin.trudheim.org> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1057065454 18445 212.34.181.4 (1 Jul 2003 13:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 13:17:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Anders Karlsson writes: >to ensure your silence, the legal system of US should protect you from >that. No. If there are, say, five companies in the market that might hire you for top $$$ and in the course of one of these contracts, you break an NDA for all the good reasons and even get away with it, the others will never ever again touch you with a polestick. So this is economic retaliation without even having to go to court. You can't force them to hire you. Keeping your mouth shut even if you know something that is not legal? Not nice, but normal. Immoral? Yes. But understandably if you have mouth to feed and mortgages to pay. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire --- Quote of the week: "It is pointless to tell people anything when you know that they won't process the message." --- Jonathan Revusky