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In article <NELSON.90Oct2235049@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:

   Unfortunately, I *did* agree to let them
   require a nondisclosure agreement, which modifies the copyright under
   which the Xircom-Clarkson-derived software is distributed.

As was already mentioned, a nondisclosure agreement for free software
is absurd, thus you ought not feel beholden to it.

   However,
   unlike the people at Xircom, I'm honest, so I'm going to stick by our
   agreement.

I can understand you feel a lot of resentment towards Xircom, but it
seems that their refusal to reveal the source to pedrive.asm is a
peripheral issue.  After all, the idea of free software is that a
single vendor *doesn't* have a monopoly over it.  It seems to me that
it is the very spirit of free software that if they refuse to
distribute source, that someone else who can, should.  In the end,
that's what keeps it free.

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