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To: Tony Viola who wrote (108893)	8/29/2000 1:43:09 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Tony: Rudedog, who works in that field says a NDA is normal and explains why in his post on the SUNW thread. My background is purely business but IMHO SUNW has done all that could be expected of them and nothing out of the ordinary seems amiss to me. I doubt the INTC thread though wishes to discuss SUNW. Its bad enough we have to put up with the AMDROIDS here without my adding to it. JDN

To: Tony Viola who wrote (108893)	8/29/2000 9:47:27 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Tony - There are many legitimate and non-sinister reasons why Sun might have NDAs for this type of situation. My complaint is the poor management of PR on the issue. See below, and Message 14291531 To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34821) From: rudedog Tuesday, Aug 29, 2000 8:18 AM ET Reply # of 34894 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.