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> The theft of trade secrets ... stifles innovation If only there were an example of an industry where innovation thrives as a result of sharing knowledge inst
by mosselman 8y ago
> The theft of trade secrets ... stifles innovation
If only there were an example of an industry where innovation thrives as a result of sharing knowledge instead of keeping it secret.
- tdb7893 8y agoKnowledge sharing is often good but stealing trade secrets isn't really the same thing (just imagine a large corp stealing trade secrets from a startup and you'll see how it could stifle innovation)
- mosselman 8y agoMy point was that if you look at the world of IT, you see that a lot of knowledge is shared and open sources. Looking at classical businesses you’d think that sharing is a bad idea though. What I find stifles innovation is keeping all sorts of knowledge locked up in big companies, how does that help mankind?
- tdb7893 8y agoKeeping all knowledge locked up would stifle innovation but not having trade secrects at all would also stifle innovation. Even IT orgs need some of their stuff to be proprietary sometimes