On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 11:28, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:15, Imran William Smith wrote:
On an unrelated topic - could the FSF do something to raise the profile of the risk anyone involved in shared source / GSP is to further software development? If we can make companies worried to employ people with a GSP / shared source history, because of possible future lawsuits from MS, then programmers know it's in their personal interests to refuse any GSP / shared source work. I would like to see a question on IT recruitment forms asking if you've ever done GSP / shared source work worked. Let's make these people 'untouchables'!
Do you have or are there evidence that MS could file lawsuits against developers that read MS code? Do you know people of governments that actually read the final NDA and can tell us for sure that this would be the case? We need to find out for sure before we declare them "untouchables", otherwise we run the risk of being called "names" :)
The problem is that probably the NDA forbid to tell others details about the NDA itself, at least the NDA on MS CIFS protocol documents seem to be designed like that.
However the SCO vs IBM case show clearly how dangerous can be signing NDAs without deep evaluation.
Simo.