Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262294AbTGAMcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:32:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262312AbTGAMcg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:32:36 -0400 Received: from mail.hometree.net ([212.34.181.120]:21419 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262294AbTGAMcf (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:32:35 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1057063616 18445 212.34.181.4 (1 Jul 2003 12:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:46:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2003 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1449 Lines: 31 Bernd Eckenfels writes: >most likely you never needed to violate a NDA in favor of the legal truth, >but be assured: nobody can force you to obey a contract which will make you >lie or keep illegal methods secret. Actually most often, you can be held >liable for knowning about it. ... in Germany. In the U.S., a court might let you get away with the NDA breach, but after that, you get sued for damages by your former employers. And even if you come off clean, you're broke after some years of paying laywers so that your case isn't dropped off the court. Regards Henning You might want to watch some Ally McBeal to get the basic idea... ;-) Unfortunately, in real life, you almost surely won't get SFL to defend you... SCNR. (ducks, runs). -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH hps@intermeta.de +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ Java, perl, Solaris, Linux, xSP Consulting, Web Services freelance consultant -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire --- Quote of the week: "It is pointless to tell people anything when you know that they won't process the message." --- Jonathan Revusky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/