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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Date: 10 Sep 1992 17:02:02 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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Message-ID: <18nv2aINN9d8@early-bird.think.com>
References: <1992Sep3.162413.19770@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Sep09.203305.18082@digibd.com> <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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Keywords: Diamond, free-software
In article <1992Sep10.130359.24767@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>In article <1992Sep09.203305.18082@digibd.com> rick@digibd.com (Rick Richardson) writes:
>> OK, so they are trying to protect this as a "trade secret". If
>> you discover a trade secret in legal ways, you are free to blab.
>Of course. But how do you PROVE that that trade secret was discovered
>in a legal way?
In fact, even if you discover a trade secret because someone who signed a
non-disclosure agreement told you, you're free to blab. So long as *you*
didn't sign such an agreement, you're under no restrictions.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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