S-Media's self-damaging NDA-happiness

[Yorick Moko]

this will probably be very stupid:
can't they "employ" someone like a freelance programmer (a community
member of course)?
so-called only for 1 day (and give him the minimum wage or whatever)
wouldn't it be "ok" to send him the docs then?

Naturally he will shred those docs immediately when the day is over.....
after some time he can then maybe tell us he is a natural-born
documentation writer and on that one day he made his own documentation
(surely without the help of other community members) and would very
much like to share his work with us all.

the only problem is that there wouldn't be enough beer in the whole
world to thank him....


who knows... maybe he even did more on that one day then just document
it all....


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:15 PM, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:
>>> Does this scenario work well for S Media?
>>
>> No. Their NDA-happiness does seem very stupid, as they don't seem to
>> have much of an edge against the bigger players besides their lack of
>> overt hostility to free software development. (Okay, possibly cost, but
>> I wouldn't know about that.)
>
> wasn't there talk some time ago that om could not release the genuine
> nda'd docs, but could do their own from them which could be released, but
> they lack the manpower to do so?
> if so, isn't there a way one of  the hardware geniusses on the list could
> join the nda and fabricate free docs from it or so?
>
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