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Do We Worry Too Much About Protecting IP?
--> By Scott McNealy
It seems as if everyones always worried about intellectual property, or IP. We worry about its proprietary nature and how to protect it. But lets take a different angle on IP and also intellectual capital inside a company, because I think we all worry way too much about protecting it.
IP has the shelf life of a banana. It just doesnt last, yet were all worried about protecting it, hiding it, securing it, storing it in a vault. As a result, we absolutely prevent our competitors from getting ahold of it, but we also prevent our employees from getting ahold of it. We prevent our customers and our suppliers and our partners from getting access to it. As a result, by the time the people who need access to it get that access, its so old that it is effectively a banana we wouldnt want to eat.
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