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Re:What’s more valuable, your idea or your secret? by javajosh on Monday August 15, 2016 @04:34PM (#12293201)
Okay, openness is good. But the simple counter-example would be Larry and Sergey's Page Rank algorithm. If they had shared it widely, would they have benefited from it? I think not.
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Re:What’s more valuable, your idea or your secret? by mattnewton on Monday August 15, 2016 @07:22PM (#12294309)
I am pretty sure they published the paper on the implementation before even starting Google.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#History

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