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Trade secrets have no special legal protection so no need to demand they be revealed. If you want you can put time and money into reversing the process and create a competitor like Mr Pibb for Dr Pepper. You can do it, assuming someone didn't violate and NDA. You might still get sued but...

And didn't Fords primary success come from cost focus and production efficiency vs patents? I mean I will certainly say Walt Disney deserved his success because of his continuous innovation and expansion. He did and would probably continue to have done well in the lower IP protection...

This comment makes no sense to me. I don't see what a restaurant has to do with this. I mean I have seen a lawsuit here that two competing restaurants stole the menu and design but they also were previous owners of the first restaurant so I kinda see that. Seems more like a non compete thing...

There's a lot to copyright protection. The most basic is strict copying of a book. My guess is that's what Twain and others of that era are arguing for more protection against. Then there is the intellectual property protection. This is things like fan fiction and derivative products like...

Exactly! My senior year in college (Chem E) my project was to design a full wastewater treatment plant with primary, secondary & tertiary treatment, size all pumps and estimate all costs. By comparison my professor worked with a team of 3 others to design just a single distillation column when...

You know there already is an RPG called "EnGarde!" ?

It actually almost works the other way. Once you have too many shareholders as a private company you are forced to file accounting reports like 10ks and S1s etc even though you are private. At that point there's much less value in remaining a private company so most go public.

Actually it can favor some shareholders more than others if it is structured specifically to do that. Google when it went public used just such a structure. It gave one class of shareholders (primarily the founders but also some early investors) 30x voting power over regular shareholders...

Literally people had many children because it increased their income not decreased it like now.

11 issues of White Dwarf ranging from issue 30 to 74. It's been a pleasant blast from the past.

Already picked up PHB, MM, DMG, Volos & Mordenkainen's for $3.49 each. Also some dice ($2) and 2 boxes of prepainted minis($2/each). It looked to me like someone saw 5e was ending and just didn't like the hobby enough to want to go with it so they got out

Combination of reasons. #1 WotCs business practices have been creepy lately so while I will purchase stuff if I think I'll use it, I am much more selective and slow to do so. #2 Not clear how backwards compatible it will be in play. #3 I have a fair amount of money sunk in VTT costs associated...