From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 01:38:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434C016A41F for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org) Received: from mail.bitfreak.org (mail.bitfreak.org [65.75.198.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07E343D45 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:38:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org) Received: from smiley (mail.bitfreak.org [65.75.198.146]) by mail.bitfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36B319F2C; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:38:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Darren Pilgrim" To: "'Clifton Royston'" , Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:38:44 -0800 Message-ID: <002001c617e2$1bc87e90$672a15ac@smiley> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <20060112175509.GB26547@lava.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Ricoh PCI to SD device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:38:57 -0000 From: Clifton Royston >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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.