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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (145153)	10/12/2001 12:20:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Mary, <Everything should be open.> So you wouldn't invest in Intel until Intel disclosed all top secret info on every future product? Tenchusatsu EDIT: This is not an issue of communism vs. democracies. Heck, at least in a democracy, if you don't feel the government is being open and forthcoming, you can always vote the bums out of office.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (145153)	10/15/2001 5:50:29 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

OT OT Mary, RE: "But, if you were a small (and small minded) company, you would keep a lot of secrets. " Sometimes life is more benign than that, and small cos keep secrets from only those individuals that may have in some way demonstrated the possibility for loose lips, or even more simply, from those that just don't happen to have a need to be informed. Having said that, I concur with you that those cos that don't share things, generally stay small, as evident by a recent story from one of our business partners. He had a company that wouldn't tell him anything, so they were essentially on their own, no partners looking out for them. They went out of business. By contrast, he said he was impressed with how much information we shared with him. With that information, he's watching our backs for us, giving us calls when he sees something amiss. I just checked out one of his leads, a potential competitor, that (fortunately) turned out to be a false alarm. Take our startup as an example, by choice, lots of folks know about us, yet many don't. There are a couple of vps at Intel that know what we're doing, high-level executives at Microsoft, and some folks at Sun, Cisco, Compaq and HP, and quite a few other cos. That's quite a roster of folks that know, yet, having said that, there is something very useful about my phrase, "information to be shared only on an as needed basis." Folks respect that, there's absolutely nothing wrong with respecting a bit of confidentiality here. Sure, people aren't perfect and there's always a chance of a slip up, and as long as a person is reasonably apologetic and forthcoming about it, such is life. If an individual is not apologetic, then I don't do business with that particular individual. But Mary, to imply that secrets are small minded, just doesn't hold up. You're not paranoid enough. Trust has to be earned, on an individual basis, not handed out. Regards, Amy J