Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 97 14:00 MET DST | | From | (Hans-Joachim Baader) | | Subject | Re: Developing under NDA |
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In article <199707300440.GAA25297@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> you write: >> Just curious...I'd like to develop a driver for the Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW >> drive, which does packet writing. The programming info requires an NDA, >> so it cannot be distributed in source form. >> >> What do I have to worry about from the kernel and GNU camps? > >Remind me not to buy a Ricoh MP6200S CD-RW drive :-)
Remind me not to by *any* Ricoh products at all, until the NDA is removed.
Of course, nobody wants to stop Andrew from writing this driver - perhaps he wants to make a living from it - but I predict it won't get many customers as long as the NDA persists.
hjb -- Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it.
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