Re: Dell vs. GPL

Thomas Dodd (ted@cypress.com)
Wed, 09 Jul 2003 18:24:02 -0500


vlad@lrsehosting.com wrote:
> Just for the record, US law does not work that way. No civil contract can
> force you to do something illegal as Andre suggests. He's just flat wrong

He never said the NDA forced him to _do_ something _illegal_.
Instead it forces him to _not do_ something _legal_.

I once had a job where I wasn't to drive the company vehicle faster than
45 MPH. Even if the speed limit is 55 MPH, I could have been fired for
driving that fast.

Similar situation for Andre. Legaly he can distrubite the code in
question, but he would loose future work because of it. Nobody would
trust him, regardless of his reasons. He (would have) violated the NDA.

-Thomas

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