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 >=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.
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