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AMD NDA Scandal

Posted by kdawson on from the all-your-words-are-belong dept.

crazyeyes writes "Just two weeks ago, a Thai journalist walked out of the hush-hush AMD event in Singapore over a controversial NDA that required him to 'send any stories to the vendor before his newspaper can publish it.' AMD categorically denied it happened, but today, we not only have proof that it happened, we also have the sordid details of the entire affair. Here's a quote from the editorial: 'First off, the non-disclosure agreement covered everything confidential said or written over the next two years on the product, and had a duration of five years, during which anything published or used in marketing would have to receive written approval from AMD before it could be used. Worse, at the end of the five years, all copies of the information made would have to be returned to the chipmaker.'"

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  1. If the journalist was stupid enough to sign it... by truth_revealed · · Score: -1, Troll

    then what's he bitching about?

    Think of the children!

    (Why is this story interesting in the least?)

  2. Re:another example by hackus · · Score: -1, Troll

    "It's AMD's own right to have such a strickt NDA, if you do not agree with it then you just don't go there, it's that simple."

    I am sorry. But in a free society corporate fascism is not permissable.

    You are also forgetting the NDA is excluding basic human rights organized by the constitution, one of which is the freedom of the press.

    Since when does a corporate entity have the right to abridge/amend the constitution?

    These companies are out of control claiming they have any and all rights that exceed anything so long as you sign on the dotted line.

    This is NOT legal, and they cannot enforce this in a court of law.
    (Correction, they cannot enforce it in a court that hasn't been bought off.)

    -Hack

    --
    Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
  3. Wrists of AMD CEO,employees, etc, Meet Razor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Then slit them. That is what the fucktards at Awful Macro Device$ should fucking do as they have tried to totally fuck up the open source movement and they have been butt-fucking Micro$haft while Intel is open-source friendly. INTEL FTW!!! AWFUL MACRO DEVICE$/MICRO$HAFT SHOULD FUCKING LOSE AND ALL OF THE FUCKTARDS AT EITHER BUSINESS SHOULD END THEIR FUCKING LIVES!

  4. Re:If the journalist was stupid enough to sign it. by Zarluk · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe we need a benevolent autocracy of technocrats too.

    Perhaps with a chimp leading them, no?

    Or, quoting an old arab saying: "beware of what you wish, because you might get it!"