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That sounds reasonable to me. If you want protection, file for a patent and share the information. Society benefits from information being more widely available
by ndriscoll 3y ago
That sounds reasonable to me. If you want protection, file for a patent and share the information. Society benefits from information being more widely available, so it doesn't make sense to specifically help protect secrets.
- beardedwizard 3y agoTrade secrets are protected by law: https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html#:~:text=Trade%20secrets%20are%20intellectual%20property,limited%20group%20of%20persons%2C%20and https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html#... I guess society disagrees, and honestly this like many comments here seem to have an anti-corporate agenda behind them that is truly irrelevant to the facts at hand.
- ndriscoll 3y agoMy comment was specifically in reply to whether it should be illegal. Obviously trade secrets are protected by law. My response is that indeed that law is bad, and society has no reason to protect trade secrets by law, and good reason not to (other than some limited protection through contracts maybe, but that should be a civil matter). The patent system exists to incentivize sharing information through a limited time monopoly. Giving trade secrets an unlimited time monopoly protection by criminalizing someone sharing them undermines that, and means that patents will only be used for low-value ideas that are obvious/easy to independently reinvent or reverse engineer.