Trade Secrets Protection
The cluster centers on discussions about why companies keep proprietary information secret, primarily citing trade secrets, IP protection, NDAs, and competitive advantages rather than illicit activities.
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you do realize that trade secrets are a thing, right?
They have trade secrets and IP to hide, yes.
Companies keeping their IP a secret? Weird..
I suspect you've asked a bad question. It should be obvious that anyone who does know such a thing could not share it since it would violate any kind of NDA or basic 'secret sauce' / leverage based competitive advantages agreements they would have surely signed as even basic employment.
They might reveal trade secrets though.
Sometimes secrets imply protecting IP and nothing nefarious.
They're worried about exposing "trade secrets".
Perhaps through the use of trade secrets.
Is not most of it still under trade secret?
Trade secrets are protected by law: https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html#...I guess society disagrees, and honestly this like many comments here seem to have an anti-corporate agenda behind them that is truly irrelevant to the f