So, gee, now all concepts of intellectual property (IP) and proprietary technology are kaput? So we should just f'get about patents and trade secret protectio

So, gee, now all concepts of intellectual property (IP) and proprietary technology are kaput? So we should just f'get about patents and trade secret protections. And for national security, sure, no longer need security classifications such as Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, etc. Sorry, I don't believe that. Here's my guess at why people say not to keep an idea secret and, instead, to tell the world: By an idea they mean just a rough description of a commercial product/service as a user/customer might see it. The technology used for the product/service is just routine software and common, off the shelf (COTS) hardware. Any crucial, core, original proprietary technology is not expected and is just missing. Instead, when there was some software for automatic trading and it appeared that a guy got a personal copy, the owners of that software started legal action to protect their technology and intellectual property -- they didn't tell the world the crucial, core internal details of just how their software worked.