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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34821)	8/29/2000 12:59:05 AM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Charles, I clearly missed the press release. I can't find a link to it. In one post JCJ says: At no point did Sun sweep this under the rug And in another he says: That WATSONYOUTH is wrong, is not Sun's fault for neglecting to call him up on the phone (really). It's pretty clear Sun has issued a press release stating what the problem is and both THE WATSONYOUTH and I missed the press release. I'm sorry for the confusion I caused. Could you give me the link please? thanks in advance, chic

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34821)	8/29/2000 8:18:07 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Charles - the press about the NDAs was unfortunate but the NDAs themselves are standard practice and have nothing to do with "sweeping things under the rug". Early on in the process of identifying a problem, engineering may provide various pieces of technology which are not public, such as OS source code, which might need NDA protection just to keep the customer from say publishing the fixes on the web... careless handling of that material can inadvertently put intellectual property in the public domain. These NDAs are really designed to let the engineering teams work freely without worrying about arcane legal issues. What I thought was needed was better info from SUNW on the nature and purpose of their NDA agreements.