Re: trade secrets

[Joe Kiefer <jhkief@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not completely true. Trade secrets are neither published, patented,
nor copywrited. The formula for Coke is an example. There are
instances in the scientific/engineering world.
Joe

On 1/11/10, Bill Moss <bill.moss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the scientific and engineering community, when one has a
> real secret process or knowledge, one copyrights or patents
> said idea/process. Otherwise, everything is shared. Imagine
> if Einstein had kept the photoelectric effect secret in 1905
> or Shotkey the Fermi charge interchange junction that lead
> to the transistor.
>
> I have published most of my work in technical journals, even
> when working for large companies and patented or been part
> of a company patent when money was to be made, publishing
> afterwards. For example, I am a principal investigator on
> the patents for amorphous silicon solar cells, fluidized bed
> coal combustion and electric generation from tides.
>
> In the software field, had not Bell Labs published Unix in
> the 1980's, there would be no Linux, no Microsoft Windows,
> no Mac OSX. This is true for the C language, Perl, Python,
> the GUI interface (Xerox PARC).
>
> What I am saying is that if someone has the skill to perform
> a complex task, than their trade secrets are usually either
> something that cannot be patented or copyrighted due to
> their being common or prior art, or simply a sales pitch. In
> this context I show people how to do things (its called
> teaching graduate school) in the knowledge that the tasks we
> perform are so complex that we are not in direct competition
> save perhaps for recognition.
> --
> William (Bill) Moss
> billmoss@xxxxxxx
> NY (USA)
>   Those who will not reason, are bigots,
>   those who cannot, are fools,
>   and those who dare not, are slaves.
> by Lord Byron
>   Justice will not be served until those who are
>   unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
> by Benjamin Franklin
>   Honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to
>   surrender that freedom which we received from
>   our gallant ancestors and which our innocent
>   posterity have a right to receive from us. We
>   cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning
>   succeeding generations to that wretchedness which
>   inevitably awaits them if we basely entail
>   hereditary bondage on them.
> by Thomas Jefferson
> Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms
> 6 July 1775
>
>
> ---
> avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
> Virus Database (VPS): 100110-1, 01/10/2010
> Tested on: 01/11/2010 10:40:39
> avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2010 ALWIL Software.
> http://www.avast.com
>
>
>
>
>

-- 
Sent from my mobile device