[zalew]

I believe NDAs make sense when you're developing for unreleased proprietary platforms. If you get outsourcing work to develop a piece of code for the next Samsung phone, preventing you blog the phone spec months before the launch is probably very reasonable. Wannabes adopting bigcorp schemes - it's just cargo cult.

[corin_]

NDAs make sense in a lot of scenarios, just rarely do they make sense right at the beginning of a business relationship.

In my (marketing) work I have never had to sign an NDA to start talking to a company nor have I asked anyone else to do that, however once we move into actually working together then I have both been asked to sign and asked others to, frequently.