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Re: NDAs
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Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:56:50 GMT
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Are they planning on having a TOWN Summit? Or Castle or Space?
Gary Istok
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
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> > Why exactly do the people going to the "Train summit" or "CAD summit"
> > need to sign NDAs and to get inside information? You don't need
> > to sign an NDA to share your ideas with TLC. So I conclude that
> > the desire among the participants to learn inside information is
> > greater than their desire to be able to speak freely. Or maybe
> > they haven't thought of it in those terms yet.
> > (This is a general comment, not directed to any participant in
> > particular.)
>
> I think this is a great question.... it gets to the heart of why companies
> share preannounced info with the general public (or rabid fans, or some
> spectrum of in between). My comments are more about the train summit but I
> suspect Steve or Tim or whoever would echo some of the same thoughts on the
> CAD summit.
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> I'll say this, it's not that we wanted to see inside information as an end
> to itself. There are leak clubs for that. It's not that we wanted to come
> off as privileged (well in my case, maybe a little, I just can't help it...
> sometimes my ego doesn't stay completely under control. But rest assured
> that's not the case with anyone else) because we got to see stuff.
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> It's that we and LD (at some considerable planning effort over several
> months) assembled a fairly representative slice of Train fans, and LD shared
> stuff with us *in order to get our reaction to it*.
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> I hope and believe that LD is going to use the feedback in order to refine
> the offerings. Otherwise we wasted our time. Ya, we had a fun fest, and I
> got to tag three names with faces that I hadn't already met, but I could
> have spent my weekend other ways, as could every other participant.
>
> I was one of the first people asked (after J2, who Brad has worked with
> before since he was involved in the KidVention GMLTC thing) to the Train
> Summit and I had some input into who else was asked. I did my level best to
> influence the list of people to make it as representative as I could given
> the number of people that could go (the original target was 6, Brad
> graciously expanded it, not once but twice, to get to 9). I'm not perfect,
> J2's not perfect, the rest of us aren't perfect people pickers, you could
> argue that we should have had X or Y or Z but I stand behind the grouping as
> representative of the target.
>
> Hope that helps. FUT back to LD... I welcome LD's comments on this but I
> think I hit the mark. (I always think that, of course...)
>
> ++Lar
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| (...) Or pirate? I'd be a little surprised to see other summits, though I'd sure love to be invited to one (but I realize that at a minimum, Larry is a good representative for me, and probably others also). The train and cad summits have clearly (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I think this is a great question.... it gets to the heart of why companies share preannounced info with the general public (or rabid fans, or some spectrum of in between). My comments are more about the train summit but I suspect Steve or Tim (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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