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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Traditionally, in the tech industry NDAs with teeth are a prerequisute to pretty much any serious discussion between companies.
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Back when
InfoWorld was a, or the, prominent tech industry print publication, the Robert X. Cringeley column routinely published non-disclosure agreement-violating news and gossip. I don't recall anyone ever being bitten by said teeth.
As for signed non-disclosure agreement between Amazon - Hachette, I have two questions:
-- Does anyone have a copy of said agreement?
-- Was disclosure of the agreement a violation of the agreement?
Thank God nation states don't have such toothy agreements. Otherwise there would be no diplomacy.
Comment: Even governments that can threaten long prison term can't keep their employees from blabbing to the press. How can anyone expect a corporation, that has neither a prison system not the ability to subpoena reporter's notebooks, to effectively muzzle employees' freedom of speech?