New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.
“We are a technology licensing company”
This is good news from the point of view of being able to create devices that can read these crystals; as a comment on the linked site says:
The realistic lifetime of storage is the life of the last manufactured or surviving retrieval device.
What to do with people who jump the queue?
How do you turn a pig into a sausage?
The article shows that that’s not what’s going on:
YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.
“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.
Did you read the article or just the headline?
I’m thinking of it the same way, and not having the readers be trade secrets but published specs is good for future digital archeologists.
For example, Dyson uses trade secrets instead of patents, so it would be harder to recreate their tech in the future.
Edit: patents not parents 🤦