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If information was of no value, then we wouldn't have insider trading laws, nor intellectual property laws. Stealth mode attempts to avert premature competitio
by CyberFonic 16y ago
If information was of no value, then we wouldn't have insider trading laws, nor intellectual property laws. Stealth mode attempts to avert premature competition. If you don't set out to make money, then release early! Linux is an excellent example of where stealth mode would have inhibited the project.
- patrickk 16y agoAh, but insider trading concerns shares, which are (usually) highly liquid and have a proven market value. As for IP, if a company is patents/trademarks/copyrights an asset, they anticipate that the asset is valuable enough to defend legally. This may or may not be the case, depending on the asset in question. A startup's stealth product is unproven, and it may turn out that it has little or no value. Hence: whether or not information has value depends on the information in question.