You think? Do you have NDA? Can you quote verbatim the paragraphs
binding him to secrecy which you say he broke? If not, then please do
us all a favor and get your facts straight, then come back and bash me
to death if you like. I await your reply.

On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:12:34 +0100, you wrote:

>To me I think Sean was breaking the Nda. Apple has never released betas 
>of iOs or Os X as public, and I can't see that changing. I actually am 
>for this and wished other companies would follow suit. This is why even 
>the first go round of Apple's new operating system is so polished.
>Just my £0.02 worth.
>
>
>On 26/08/2013 18:47, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
>> I listened to the podcast, and I never heard it stated that this was a
>> public beta. The podcaster also never explained how he got the beta
>> himself. Although he acknowledged that there's a lot of information on
>> IOS 7 available out there on the web, he also admitted that there are
>> people out there who don't feel information on IOS 7 should be
>> distributed unless it's done by Apple or until IOS 7 has been released.
>> It isn't clear to me, after listening to the podcast, whether this is a
>> public beta or whether an NDA has been violated or not.
>>
>> I'm OK with Cara and Raul determining what is and isn't appropriate for
>> the list. I just think our facts need to be accurate, and we shouldn't
>> claim things are publicly available or that NDA's haven't been violated
>> when the source we're pointing to doesn't even address those points.
>>
>> BTW, I don't think there's any more dissension in the blindness
>> community than there is in the general public. We're all people and
>> anyone can voice an opinion without or without facts to back it up and
>> the blind don't have a monopoly on this behavior.
>>
>> I'm curious, does the 37 messages include the half of dozen messages you
>> contributed to the thread? Just curious, since I haven't been counting
>> myself.
>>
>> On 08/26/2013 12:11 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> I can't believe there were thirty-seven messages written about this
>>> topic, none of which would have been necessary if anybody had listened
>>> to the program. Thinking that it was one I hadn't heard before, I
>>> downloaded it and listened. I got about two minutes into it, and
>>> realized I had indeed heard it before. If any of you who complained
>>> about Joseph's having posted this link would have done the same, you
>>> all would have heard what I heard the first time, and then again just
>>> now, that this release was already in public beta, there were no
>>> non-disclosure agreements violated, nothing was being disclosed that
>>> should not have been, information about it was all over everywhere,
>>> and that Shawn was simply going to spotlight, if you will, the
>>> accessibility features that had changed, something that most other
>>> YouTube videos would doubtfully have covered. All of you people who
>>> bashed Joseph for posting the link really need to grow up and get your
>>> facts straight before jumping on your keyboards and writing about
>>> things of which you know nothing. You wonder why there is so much
>>> dissention in the blind community about anything at all? It's because,
>>> while everybody has an opinion, nobody seems to have the facts.
>>> Opinions are cheap--everybody has one. Facts, now, they're expensive.
>>> They require thought and research. Exercise the same before bashing
>>> somebody who tried to do you a favor.
>>>
>>

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