>...pehaps allowing your overseas affiliates the right to accept NDA's?
We do have such a setup in Japan, due to the heavy concentration of
developers in that physical area: there are developer support folks there
and they help expedite things like this. Recruit a few thousand developers
in Sweden or the UK, and I imagine it wouldn't be hard to make the case to
do the same there!
The turnaround time (from when the documents arrive here) is the same for
everyone, so if you want to just drop your license in an express mail
pouch, you might well beat the turnaround time of a developer here in the
states using the normal mail system.
Also, the turnaround time is typically way lower than the quoted 2 weeks -
that's a worst case scenario, really. I'd estimate that assuming mail
delivery happens promptly, and there aren't unusual things going on here,
it is usually 2 business days or so.
Also remember that with the new setup, this only needs to happen once - to
prevent exactly these kinds of issues. Once you're in the seeding program,
everything is instant and online... handling non-US residents promptly was
one of the big hassles before, and now it is trivial.
We can't make the world smaller, or make lawyers (or criminals) go away,
but given those constraints I think the current system is actually quite
good. One express mail pouch sending one license one time, and you're set
from then on...
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
