Reminds me of early Stallman and his travails with the Xerox laser printer : After briefly introducing himself as a visitor from MIT, Stallman requested a copy

Reminds me of early Stallman and his travails with the Xerox laser printer : After briefly introducing himself as a visitor from MIT, Stallman requested a copy of the laser-printer source code so that he could port it to the PDP-11. To his surprise, the professor refused to grant his request. "It was my first encounter with a nondisclosure agreement, and it immediately taught me that nondisclosure agreements have victims," says Stallman, firmly. "In this case I was the victim. [My lab and I] were victims." "When somebody invited me to betray all my colleagues in that way, I remembered how angry I was when somebody else had done that to me and my whole lab," Stallman says. "So I said, `Thank you very much for offering me this nice software package, but I can't accept it on the conditions that you're asking for, so I'm going to do without it.'" http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html