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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Invitation to Beta test the New Control System

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Originally Posted by Jack Murphy View Post
What an incredible Opportunity! My favorite community has been given a chance to Prove it.

Real words, txt, etc. Flying around our Earth.

I’ve had the benefit of being on the list of a few of the Beta Teams.
Holy Smokes Friends, their plans far exceed what is being discussed here.

Define, Attack and Disseminate. They are so excited.

So…
There will be many sources of information.

Will CD be one?
NDA notwithstanding, can we have posts that begin, “My guess”, and
“I read somewhere” and on and on?

I am soooo looking forward to what all/y’all come up with.



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To borrow a meme, NDAs is serious business. If I were you, I'd caution your contacts in the beta program that even talking about their plans might be problematic. They need to carefully read and understand the NDA to know what they can and can't talk about. Beta team members hiding behind "I guess" etc simply won't stand up if FIRST were to seriously pursue the matter. The law isn't going to care if you're being coy, it's going to care if you disclosed the information. Similarly, if a beta team talks to you and you start being coy on CD, the beta team would still be in trouble. The worst part, of course, is that now that you've mentioned that you have contacts on beta teams that talk to you about things you need to be careful about what you say. Why? Because if you start being coy (and correct) now and FIRST decides to be serious about this, they could provisionally assume that one of your contacts broke NDA and start looking into the matter, etc.

So really, it's probably better all around if the beta teams don't talk much till FIRST lifts the NDA and we don't pester them with questions and idle speculation.

PS. Yes, I realize just how silly it is to call for CDers to not idly speculate about something like this.
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