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I'm thinking about making a comic - style tutorial for esperanto..
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, gave a little speech about IP. It's not really about IP after the first paragraph, but I like some of his thoughts.
IP has the shelf life of a banana. It just doesn't last, yet we're 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, it's so old that it is effectively a banana we wouldn't want to eat.
(via slashdot)"Transderivational search" is the NLP/hypnosis term for gathering meaning from a stimulus. I wonder what a transderivational search engine might be like.