OpenSource BUZZ.
Jan. 23rd, 2005 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI just had the coolest idea EVAH! Its called How to Leverage Mystery. You see, I was thinking about Transmeta and their chips, and how they were really mysterious about what they were doing except to say that what they were gonna produce was revolutionary. Lots of folks speculated on what that meant and some really good suggestions came down the pipe as to what they might be doing. Then it was all revealed, and it was just the same old thing.
Then the same thing happened with the segway.
Now, folks are talking about the new Cell processor for the PS3. Everyone says it will be great, but its still secret. My cynicism says it will all be crap too.
So, here's how it SHOULD be done. Make a major mysterious announcement of what you plan to do, patent a lot of really obscure stuff, and then mine the speculation for truely good ideas, and DO THAT! Maybe then it won't be crap when the world sees what you've done.
(Of course, the bad thing, is that if you could tell a good idea when it bit you, you could have your own good ideas...)
Then the same thing happened with the segway.
Now, folks are talking about the new Cell processor for the PS3. Everyone says it will be great, but its still secret. My cynicism says it will all be crap too.
So, here's how it SHOULD be done. Make a major mysterious announcement of what you plan to do, patent a lot of really obscure stuff, and then mine the speculation for truely good ideas, and DO THAT! Maybe then it won't be crap when the world sees what you've done.
(Of course, the bad thing, is that if you could tell a good idea when it bit you, you could have your own good ideas...)
