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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: AS225v2 Wanted!
- References: <9603171736.AA007fi@startide.demon.co.uk> <DoJ42z.A3r@cix.compulink.co.uk> <mbs.4a7u@adastra.cvl.va.us> <4jefql$ids@infa.central.susx.ac.uk>
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- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 19:46:32 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <4jefql$ids@infa.central.susx.ac.uk> tepa1@central.susx.ac.uk (Iakovos Stamoulis) writes:
- > Michael B. Smith (mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us) wrote:
- > : AS225r_2_ was _never_ publically released. Any developer that sells
- > : someone an "old copy" is breaking their non-disclosure agreement.
- >
- > Yes.. but Is the agreement still valid... We all know that CBM doesn't
- > exist any more so... they are not breaking anythin I guess.
- > That is unless ESCOM bought the rights of unreleased source
- > codes as well.
-
- The agreement is still valid. For all intents and purposes, as far
- as this is concerned, ESCOM is CBM.
-
- Regardless of anything else, the NDA specifically states that it
- covers products for five years, whether the products are released
- are not; and that the agreement is binding on the signer, their
- employees, heirs, and assigns.
-
- They ARE breaking something if they release it.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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