Comments on: Don't protect your ideas – thoughts on Seth Godin's post http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/734/dont-protect-your-ideas-thoughts-on-seth-godins-post/ Trusted advisors to the world's most innovative companies Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Aaron Wood http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/734/dont-protect-your-ideas-thoughts-on-seth-godins-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1485 Aaron Wood Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:30:02 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=734#comment-1485 <p>I think I will start by digitising his book and embedding his name into my site to drive traffic there.  I will then proceed to pass his stories off as my own before decrying him as a fraud.</p> <p>That's ok, right?</p> I think I will start by digitising his book and embedding his name into my site to drive traffic there.  I will then proceed to pass his stories off as my own before decrying him as a fraud.

That’s ok, right?

]]> By: Robert Link http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/734/dont-protect-your-ideas-thoughts-on-seth-godins-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1484 Robert Link Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:57:13 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=734#comment-1484 <p>The rant against IP abuses is fair, if taken for what it is: a rant. Godin doesn't seem to take the extreme position that no IP is good, just that there's a lot of abuse.</p> The rant against IP abuses is fair, if taken for what it is: a rant. Godin doesn’t seem to take the extreme position that no IP is good, just that there’s a lot of abuse.

]]> By: Steve http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/734/dont-protect-your-ideas-thoughts-on-seth-godins-post/comment-page-1/#comment-1483 Steve Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:41:20 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=734#comment-1483 <p>Even Red Hat, the iconic leader of the open source movement, holds patents. And they derive benefits from those patents:</p><p>"If Red Hat builds an innovation that our competitors are able to use, the least we can demand is that the innovations our competitors build are available to our engineering teams as well." Robert Young, <a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0004.304" rel="nofollow">How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model</a></p><p>That 'demand' would of course be an empty gesture without the backbone of patents.</p> Even Red Hat, the iconic leader of the open source movement, holds patents. And they derive benefits from those patents:

“If Red Hat builds an innovation that our competitors are able to use, the least we can demand is that the innovations our competitors build are available to our engineering teams as well.” Robert Young, How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model

That ‘demand’ would of course be an empty gesture without the backbone of patents.

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