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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:33448 comp.unix.bsd:6532 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!news From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer Date: 13 Oct 1992 19:19:36 -0500 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1bfp2oINNn4a@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> References: <1992Oct11.045446.1020@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bvy0H3.Lwq@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Oct13.050754.4113@sinkhole.unf.edu> <1992Oct13.175214.19534@fcom.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu In <1992Oct13.175214.19534@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >Wrong reason. The reason was legal. There would be no more danger in a >piece of code dealing with the video card than any other code dealing with >a video card. The warnings you remember were from another post for some >alpha VGA code (not the "Batman" code). Unfortunately, no one who has >used the "Batman" code can sy whether or not there was a problem, since >doing so could be admitting a violation of the trade secrets act if Diamond >wanted to prosecute. That's rediculous. You can't be held liable for leaking a trade secret if you never signed a non-disclosure agreement. If I want to use that code, or tell other people about that code, that is fine. The original author of the code could be held liable, but no one else. I never signed anything, so there isn't anything legal that they can do to me about it. ++Brett;