Niklaus would be taking a bigger risk if he signed Intel'sNDA. Right now, he has no legal obligation to protect anyone's secrets.
If a disgruntled chemist at Coca-Cola gave you their secretformula, he would be in deep trouble. But no one could stop you from selling cola drink (you couldn't *call* it "Coca-Cola", of course), or posting the formula on the web.
The company will probably try to sue anyway if OpenBIOS cuts into Award's profits. I don't think any of us has the financial resources to counter something like that. If they don't, ok we're lucky, but I'd like to avoid that kind of stuff. There's been a lot of bad patent stuff going around lately so I checked something out:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05732268__
That does *not* look good.
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