From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2000-04-11 20:08:28
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 07:12:15PM +0200, Groepaz wrote: > ... what if "someone" would post the necessary info on "some" website ... > "some" other "someone" happens to get the info from the site and happen > to add support to "some" freeware assembler ?! If I find the necessary information freely available on the net, I will assume that the "trade secret" is no longer a secret, will check back with the people that paid me and probably add the small include file that is currently missing in the freeware version. Until that happens, I will handle the information as confidential and the world has to live without sunplus support in ca65 (as it did before:-). I do consider the decision to keep an opcode set secret stupid and not very helpful for sunplus and its customers, but I'm neither sunplus, nor one of its customers, so I don't care. I don't think, violating the "trade secret" is a good idea. It may be worth considering in other situations, but in this situation, it would be better to talk to them. It seems to me that they do not realize what it means to keep an opcode set secret. As Eric told me, the CPU core he is using is fully 65C02 compatible, so maybe they have even learned something and would release the data sheet for their soundcore CPUs if there is enough customer demand. If you are a sunplus customer, it may be worth a try. > N.D.A.'s suck dick! information wants to be free! I have not signed an NDA, I just promised to keep the data confidential. And I will keep this promise as long as the "trade secret" is intact. It was my own decision to accept the terms of the contract (I have to admit, I was somewhat curious:-), and it would be very immoral to break it. Regards Uz -- Ullrich von Bassewitz uz_at_musoftware.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo_at_musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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