[Jewelry making - Article 00481] - Re: [Orchid] Keeping trade secrets

[Richard Hart]

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>     The answers have shown the nature of the replier." 

    Now, is this a true statement? The difference in replies could be the
    difference between someone who has little or no experience in
    business, someone who does jewelry as a hobby, someone who is a
    teacher, someone who was naive, someone who had got taken advantage
    of or a person who is a professional. Just like the designers who
    copyright work and do not allow others to knock them off, knowledge
    given away can be detrimental to ones business health. Each of you
    have to determine what benefit or risk will be incurred by sharing.
    And sharing tools and suppliers is totally different than sharing
    techniques or processes used to create or design jewelry. Thinking
    one can deduce another person's nature by their reply seems quite
    shortsighted. But thanks for sharing your comprehensive analytical
    insight. Sometimes the phrase "If I tell you I would have to kill
    you" is a joke. And sometimes it is not. There is a story about the
    number 13. It goes that when only royalty could wear jewelry, anyone
    caught wearing jewelry who was not royal was put to death. Normally
    the court had 12 jewelers, and when a special project came up and
    they needed more help, they would train more jewelers. When they
    finished the project, 13 and up were killed. Knowledge was protected.
    I do not know the provenance of this story. Don't know the truth of
    this story, told to me 40 years ago by an old wax carver, but not
    too far fetched for my mind.

    Older and theoretically smarter, or not.... 

Richard Hart

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