Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:38:44 -0800 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: "'Clifton Royston'" <cliftonr@lava.net>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Ricoh PCI to SD device? Message-ID: <002001c617e2$1bc87e90$672a15ac@smiley> In-Reply-To: <20060112175509.GB26547@lava.net>
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From: Clifton Royston > > If that NDA says some fairly typical things, and if the FreeBSD > organization (or any individual developer) poneys up the money for the > standard and signs the associated NDA, then either that developer or > the FreeBSD group as a whole might then be permanently barred from > writing open source code to implement the protocol, as a working > implementation could disclose protocol information covered as a secret > by the NDA. > > I'm sure that's *not* what you want to see. In a roundabout way, that's exactly what I'm saying. The SDA, by their actions, doesn't give a rats posterior about freedom. They're falsely convinced technology standards are a revenue vector and are surviving solely upon Apple, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Sony, Samsung and all the other huge companies having the capital to just pony up their extortionist fees rather than making a moral stand. The only reason I have any SD hardware at all is because it was a non-removable option in the notebook I bought.help
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