From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 09:12:40 MDT
--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- "Michael M. Butler" <mmb@spies.com> wrote:
> > Care to suggest a secure channel? Sorry to be so
> coy, but that's what
> >
> > happens when I try to get serious about wearing a
> business guy hat. I
> > had
> > to learn that. There's a time for going public, so
> to speak, and this
> > ain't
> > it. Spiders do crawl the Javein archive. :)
>
> Start a private yahoogroup and invite people into
> it.
Or just mass-cc the people you care to include in the
discussion, and request that they not spread the
secret. (Anyone you don't trust with this probably
shouldn't be in the secure channel, no matter what it
is. If nothing else, they can copy it into their
mind,
then retype it in other emails.)
Be aware, though, that hot ideas kept from the public
eye are also ideas kept from public review. It's much
like open source, I've found - except that realizing
the idea takes more than the idea itself. Often, it
takes a mix of specialized skills and talent which
only
the conceiver both has (or knows to find) and can use
in the right way, at least for the first several
months. Once a product is released, though, secrecy
becomes far more of a disadvantage: sure, you keep
potential competitors from learning of it, but you
also
keep potential customers from learning of it, and a
lack of customers more surely kills your income than a
glut of competition.
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