On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 08:54 James Bottomley <
James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:

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> OK, let me make it more specific: there exists no individual
> contributing to open source in a leadership capacity for whom a
> signable NDA cannot be crafted.
>

No.

I don't sign NDA's. I just don't do it.

It's that simple.

It's actually worked pretty well. It started because I worked for a direct
competitor to Intel, and couldn't sign an NDA for the really old f0 0f
lockup issue.

Not having an NDA back then turned out to be a good thing, because it made
it a non-issue when leaks happened. So I started the policy that I never
want to be in the position that I had to worry legally about being in the
position of being under an NDA and knowing things outside of the leaks.

Instead, I've had a gentleman's agreement with companies - nothing legally
binding, but over the years people have come to realize that the leaks
don't come from me.

So I don't do NDA's. Maybe some Linux Foundation NDA agreement technically
covers me, but at least with the Intel cases, Intel is actually aware of my
non-NDA situation and is fine with it.

      Linus

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