Intellectual Property is like a banana (McNealy)
Jim Choate
ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Wed Nov 25 14:12:36 PST 1998
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> X-within-URL: http://www.cadence.com/features/vol3No3/mc_nealy
> 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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