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<p>Howdy!</p>
<p>I just told a prospective customer to take a hike because he
expected me to sign an NDA - I really do not have issues with NDA
and have signed a few over the years but this guy was looking to
put me in a headlock and permanent "screwed mode".</p>
<p>Well, at least that is the way I interpreted the wording on the
NDA he sent me. Things like:</p>
<p>- I could not engage business activity with nor use as service
providers anyone they do business with (well, would this mean that
I would have to drop, say, my web service provider, my accounts
with AWS, Twilio, MailChimp, GMail, and others we both commonly
use?)</p>
<p>- Could not work for, directly nor indirectly with anyone they do
business with nor anyone any of their affiliates does business
with ... and so on and so forth ... (Well, wouldn't this mean that
if he can identify anyone entity, however remote from his primary
business, is directly or indirectly linked to any of his customers
or affiliates, I could not do business with that party?)</p>
<p>There are clauses talking about not using computer, software or
technology employed by them - hell, if I could not use "computer"
or "related technologies" what will I do for a living then?</p>
<p>The first sign that the NDA was not going to get signed was it
being about 8 pages long, NDA are normally 1 or 2 page long ...
the guy did not even bothered to narrowed down to his specific
industry (Medical Insurance Underwriters) as I suggested - I asked
him to revise it, he sent a draft of how he would change it and
then ends up sending the same thing in different order. lol<br>
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<p>How often do you walk away from a prospective customer on the
basis of their stupid NDA?</p>
I cannot imagine anyone here asking someone like Mark or Richard or
Nancy to sign an NDA and request that they do not write
fp/perl/Python/.NET code because that is what they use as a
development platform.
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<p>I even went as far as to tell them that they were asking for my
service not because they had something to teach me, but because I
had the skills they needed! <br>
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<p>I am not going to lie, this was $1K/month (easy money) account to
do little work here and there but the "strings" as specified on
the NDA were, in my opinion, a bit much.<br>
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<p>Am I reading too much into an NDA? <br>
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