On Mon, May 29 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Trying? NDA for speed control and firmware upgrades is not silly, it's
> > plain stupid.
>
> Firmware upgrade NDA is common. They are all scared the next chernobyl virus
> will erase disk firmware. Also with DVD drives all these evil people keep
But what do you win by requiring an NDA for the actual firmware?
Nothing, people can still just upload crap to the drive.
> patching their disks with region lock free firmware 8)
That is a different issue ;)
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