[HN Gopher] OneDNA - We've Standardised the NDA
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OneDNA - We've Standardised the NDA
Author : aratob
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-01-23 18:13 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (onenda.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (onenda.org)
| exabrial wrote:
| Advice from an old farmer: Avoid signing anything.
|
| I just started saying, "If you are in need of my services, and
| require me to sign an NDA, you must cover the legal fees
| necessary for my choice of lawyer to review it."
| isoos wrote:
| This sounds great on the first glance, I wonder: how is it
| taken in practice? I guess it is slightly better than clear
| refusal...
| ISL wrote:
| I've had some success with, "Okay, well what can we talk
| about without the NDA?"
|
| NDAs are hard; there are good reasons for them, but they are
| too-easily proffered and too-often signed.
|
| Where possible, they are far more humane if they have a
| reasonable end-date.
|
| At the end of the day, these agreements (and non-
| competes/non-poaching clauses), among well-intentioned
| people, can boil down to the spirit of Stuart Freedman's
| request [1] that Gerry Garvey memorialize an oath: "I swear
| that I will not screw you unnecessarily."
|
| These agreements, however, are a bulwark against the ill-
| intentioned and malevolent.
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/sFWi4tvQcCY?t=892
| Etheryte wrote:
| Depending on where you're from, being aware of your local
| intellectual property laws and the like should not take too
| much effort in my opinion. Whenever I receive an offer/a
| contract/etc I take a lot of red pen to it and send it back
| with my comments. Most companies have no problem with this, the
| ones that do are good to avoid anyway.
| pclmulqdq wrote:
| I thought NDAs were already pretty much standardized. If I need
| one, my lawyer has one made for all 50 states that is just a
| fill-in-the-blanks document.
| jpalomaki wrote:
| It's the same thing with all the lawyers - and that's the
| problem. Each NDA you get is a bit different and takes some
| effort to check.
| alkonaut wrote:
| Title probably meant to say OneNDA...
| fuzzybear3965 wrote:
| fuzzybear3965 wrote:
| Title? Probably should be
|
| "OneNDA - We've Standardised the NDA"
| noodlesUK wrote:
| Typo in the headline: s/DNA/NDA/
|
| You might still be within the edit window, I don't remember how
| long it is
| fuzzybear3965 wrote:
| lsb wrote:
| The url is OneNDA and the title typed here is OneDNA, perhaps
| this bodes poorly for how memorable/repeatable the name is.
| fuzzybear3965 wrote:
| EGreg wrote:
| Maybe someone wants to fix the title to say NDA instead of DNA?
| hehe
| nivertech wrote:
| SEVERANCE AGREEMENT ===================
|
| "THIS SEVERANCE AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is entered into on
| this _______, 2022
|
| by and between __[YOUR LEGAL NAME]__, government ID __________,
|
| address _____________ (the "Receiving Party"), and _________ Inc
|
| having its registered office at ________________________ (the
| "Disclosing Party").
|
| I have of my own free accord elected to undergo the procedure
| known as Severance.
|
| I give consent to severe my memories between my work life and my
| personal life.
|
| I acknowledge that once the procedure is complete,
|
| I'll be unable to access my personal memories whilst at the
| severed floor.
|
| Nor will I retain work memories when I return home at the end of
| the day.
|
| I make these statements freely. Signature:
| _________________ Date: _________________
|
| --
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQP4VVuyrY
| [deleted]
| cowpig wrote:
| I find it odd that a project to "standardize the NDA" doesn't let
| me view the template anywhere on the website directly, without
| giving them personal information
| nvr219 wrote:
| Here, I made a copy for you:
|
| https://user.fm/files/v2-28eddef8c964c504b98953e60ee6829f/on...
| pinum wrote:
| In cases like this, my company name is asfsafasfsa and my email
| is sadasfsa@safsafsa.com.
| Doctor_Fegg wrote:
| example.com is your friend!
| capableweb wrote:
| You can see it for free, but you're gonna have to sign their
| NDA before.
| reifnir wrote:
| That's how they get ya
| leptoniscool wrote:
| Nit: OneNDA, not OneDNA
| ISL wrote:
| I spent quite a while looking for a link from which to git-clone
| and never found one.
|
| It is advertised as _We've created a crowd-sourced, open-source
| standard NDA that companies can adopt as their own._
|
| The desire to trademark the name makes sense, so that "oneNDA"
| can mean something, but to reap the true benefit of the crowd,
| CC-BY-SA would be a much better fit than the present CC-BY-ND,
| no?
| riedel wrote:
| Is it their business model that they charge for derivatives? I
| find it weird that there is no bigger adoption of open source
| in legal documents. I find 'pull requests' on our contracts
| always interesting.
| egamirorrim wrote:
| This is great
| thebestmoshe wrote:
| Why do I need to put in my email address to even view the
| contents of the NDA?
| jopsen wrote:
| Maybe they put it behind an NDA..
|
| I clicked around and couldn't see the actual text either...
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