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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Non-Disclosure - How about respecting it?
Message-ID: <803@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 91 08:00:28 GMT
References: <561.27a5a3ca@vger.nsu.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <561.27a5a3ca@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me why there are so many people so willing to violate
>their non-disclosure agreements with Commodore?
>
>In the last couple of weeks I have seen many postings from individuals
>asking questions about software that is only available to developers.
>And what is worse is that the developers are answering these questions.

Thank you for the clear words.

>I really want the developers to respect their agreements.  I fear that
>if these kind of violations continue the current developers program 
>will be put aside and a more "Microsoft" like agreement will be put
>in its place.

Hmm, what do you mean by this? The current situation is that MS-DOS 5.0
is in it's beta state, everybody raves about it, gives different
"informations" about, there are notices published that it is already
released to the public and then afterwards it turns out that some
seller has betrayed that buyer with old software, and so on. Well,
does this all sound familiar for people here?
So what do you mean with a "Microsoft like agreement"? (I don't know
their non-disclosure contracts.)

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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