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Google's Evil NDA
An anonymous reader writes "Google's motto is "Don't Be Evil" — but they sure have an evil non-disclosure agreement! In order to be considered for employment there, you must sign an agreement that forbids you to 'mention or imply the name of Google' in public ever again. Further, you can't tell anyone you interviewed there, or what they offered you, and you possibly sign away your rights to reverse-engineer any of Google's code, ever. And this NDA never expires. Luckily, someone has posted excerpts from the NDA before he signed it and had to say silent forever." At the bottom of the posting are links to a few other comments on the Web about Google's NDA, including a ValleyWag post that reproduces it in its entirety.
The first rule of employment at Google is: You don't talk about Google! The second rule of employment at Google is: YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT GOOGLE! ...
"Freedom is about choice, and chosing between eating ar dying isn't really the freedom the founding fathers had in mind."
I'm pretty sure those that are even thinking about working at Google of all places aren't in the class of people who have to choose between eating or dying when considering employment there.