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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2005, at 2:24 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> In that case Dell is a customer of Adaptec, not the other way around,
>> so any NDA that Dell might require for Adaptec to sign would not
>> have restricted Adaptec's use of it's own programming documentation.
> 
> And you know this, because...?
> 
> You've read that NDA and you know just what it says and what
> it covers?

Are you really stupid or are you just pretending to be really stupid?
Do you even know what an NDA is for?

An NDA prevents someone from talking about what are regarded as trade
secrets.  In the case of Adaptec supplying Dell with controllers,
Dell does not have trade secrets that they would be giving to Adaptec.
Instead, Adaptec would be the one presenting the 'trade secrets' to Dell
in the form of programming info, thus Adaptec would be issuing the
NDA to Dell, not the other way around.

If you cannot understand this then there's no point in discussing
it further with you, as you quite obviously have no idea what an
NDA is.

Ted