Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:50:23 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: truesdel@nas.nasa.gov Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, frank@exit.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is anyone working on a QuickCam driver/app? Message-ID: <199601022150.OAA12725@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <17021.820271591@nas.nasa.gov> from "Dave Truesdell" at Dec 29, 95 01:13:11 pm
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[ ... QuickCam ... ] > I received e-mail from them on the 21st of December, saying that they have > decided that they really will release the protocols if you sign a > non-disclosure/non-compete agreement with them. They claim that they are > documenting the protocols and that they would be available the second week of > January. However, I'll believe it when I see it. They claimed they would > release the protocols under NDA's before, but from everything I've seen, they > never really prepared to do so. NDA means that you can't release the source code. NDA means there's really no point in providing a third party driver, since you can't give it to anyone except as a binary, so you get to spend the rest of your life playing "maintenance programmer" as you track OS changes. This is why the Adaptec drivers aren't distributed as binaries derived from HIM layer sources acquired under NDA. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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