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Originally Posted by Jack Jones
If there was no advantage to knowing beforehand, then why did they need an NDA? Some make it sound like knowing early was a disadvantage. Was the NDA in place to keep them from misinforming the rest? Was the “when” in the NDA an arbitrary date, or was it when the test team demonstrated proficiency? Saying that the test teams had more problems than others suggests it was the former, and is not much of an endorsement for beta testing.
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You can read the NDA from the previous beta test here:
http://www.usfirst.org/uploadedFiles...st-Rev-0-5.pdf (the last page). In steps 2 and 4, it mentions written consent. That consent is given in section 0.4 of the document, a few pages earlier. As was noted earlier, not much was witheld, but there were guidelines to make sure that all teams had equal opportunity to the information discovered and the code developed.
Now you don't have to speculate what was allowed or not allowed.