Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, WWDC, Blogging, Apple
Flickr Find: WWDC is a no blog zone
John Gruber, a man who knows his cheesesteaks as well as his Macs, is on the scene at WWDC and is armed with his camera. He took the picture above and posted it to Flickr. Notice it says, 'Please ensure that your communications with others outside WWDC 2006, including your blogs, do not contain any Apple Confidential Information.'
We have made it people, Apple fears blogs. Or something.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andrew Knott said 7:11AM on 8-08-2006
That's right... When you buy in to WWDC, you buy in to an NDA. Fact of life...
Apple doesn't 'fear blogs'. It rightly wants to protect stuff that's 'in development' to protect itself from people who don't have any real stake in its development. If you want to find out stuff, go buy a WWDC ticket.
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Daniel D said 8:05AM on 8-08-2006
but what about all that blogging then on tuaw or engadget? was this against their rules?
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nogg3r5 said 8:11AM on 8-08-2006
Doesn't that picture breach the agreement?
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Andrew Knott said 8:30AM on 8-08-2006
No, only the sessions are protected by NDA, not the Keynote, and ofcourse not the public areas in the Moscone centre.
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clearlynuts said 8:47AM on 8-08-2006
Hey, is that sign covered under the NDA? You wouldn't want any of Apple's lawyers on your hind quarters.
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Splashman said 11:49AM on 8-08-2006
Gawd. A typical NDA and an entirely predictable mention of blogs, conflated by TUAW into an inflated sense of self-importance.
Get over yourself.
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Matt J said 1:10PM on 8-08-2006
Now that would be funny, Apple sueing for copyright about an NDA sign.
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Todd said 1:26PM on 8-08-2006
It doesn't say 'don't blog', it says that your blog is not an exclusion zone for the NDA. Grow up.
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Scott McNulty said 2:16PM on 8-08-2006
Goodness, I often forget how some people don't get my jokes. Perhaps I should start putting them in bold or following them with *That was a joke!*.
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Marcelo Todaro said 7:16AM on 8-09-2006
Scott, you better do right that. Don't you know that people's understanding is hard? What about using smileys?
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Marcelo Todaro said 7:27AM on 8-09-2006
Scott, you better do right that. Don't you know that people's understanding is hard? What about using smileys?
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