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Hopefully enough of these get thrown out so the trolling will stop. Then we just have to worry about people stealing your technology overnight and turning every
by alttab 14y ago
Hopefully enough of these get thrown out so the trolling will stop. Then we just have to worry about people stealing your technology overnight and turning every new innovation into a perfectly competitive market. I'm not being snarky, I think it's a tough problem to solve.
Of course, the "toughness" is in trying to preserve financial incentives and profit, when maybe we should all just be motivated for the better of humanity and to make the world a better place? But maybe that's the folly of man and we are asking too much. In which case as a species we get what comes to us.
I think that's enough existentialism for one night.
*silly iPad autocorrecT
- ljd 14y agoTaking the position that non-patented work could be stolen overnight is an irrational, yet strangely a pervasive fear in software. It's why new entrepreneurs push NDA's on their initial contacts. It's been my experience that there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into building a successful tech company. Anything that is truly new technology is often kept as a trade secret. In software, patents are only great for defense.