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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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