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Can I officially take back my "trade secret" comment?

Posted by Joe Johnson at 2/2/2001 9:51 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: A very reliable method - trade secret?
Posted by Raul on 2/2/2001 9:06 PM EST:



Raul,

Very cool attachment method. I have seen this kind of
joint before, but I have never used them. Being a
careful person, I am lothe to use anything new if I
know some other method that works.

You should have heard me argue against the 4-bar puck
grabber two years back, "Why don't we go with a lift
again? We KNOW how to do lifts. This 4-bar stuff is
all well and good for design classes in college, but
what kind of troubles are we going to cause for
ourselves if we actually try to use it? yada yada yada..."

Anyway, knowing that Raul-the-magnificent considers
them safe territory has put this shaft joining method
on my short list of "approved FIRST practices" Thanks
for the tip.

Now for the topic of the message. I regret ever
having used the term "trade secret" in regard to stuff
that FIRST teams keep to themselves ;-)

I like the term in that it conveys the idea well, but
it seems that it has a negative connotation to most folks.

This was quite a surprise to me because at Delphi, we
use the term all the time in a very positive way. In
fact, Delphi even pays $1000 to employees that submit
Trade Secrets that are accepted by the
intellectual property review board (the same folks that
decide which inventions Delphi should spend the money
to patent).

Anyway, How do other feel about the term? Should we
scrap it?

Joe J.



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