On 01/31/2011 11:03 AM, Roarty, Francis X wrote: > > My bet is the New company is mean to assemble the pieces where said > pieces are farmed out far and wide... >
In which case you're back to assuming Rossi is setting up a brand new assembly line and manufacturing facility. If the new entity is doing anything more than just pasting shipping labels on pre-boxed units, he's got a big job to do in establishing the new company, and it's an unnecessary job, as that work could have been farmed out. > with even a red herring or two to keep copy cats at bay. > God, I hope not! That's nuts! Make a hard problem even harder just to try to provide a little "security by obfuscation", and buy perhaps an extra week or two while the competition figures out the trick? > His > > Biggest concern is procuring and packaging the secret additive to > avoid it's identification for as long as possible. Perhaps he intends > to mix the nano powder alloy himself . > And what's he going to do, post a guard in every customer's shop to be sure nobody cracks open the case and analyzes the powder? (Some of the folks who will want to know how it works already have more guards than Rossi could ever hire.) If this works, there is no way under heaven he's going to prevent the secret from getting out. License agreements and NDAs won't mean s--t when it comes to protecting the knowledge on something this big. The importance of this knowledge is on the same general order as the knowledge of how to build a hydrogen bomb. Even the U.S. government couldn't protect /that/ knowledge, and they've got a lot more counter-espionage capabilities than lone-worker Rossi. He may be able to collect licensing fees for a good long while, but there is absolutely no way he's going to keep the rest of the world in the dark as to how these things work. The biggest red flag is how casually this is being treated.
