Memepark

I put together a set of slides last night about Clean Room Design for my presentation at the SFLC Legal Summit. Clean Room Design involves a small, dedicated group of obsessive personality types - usually men - who sequester themselves away from the rest of the community and engage in intensive, secretive projects with the intent to disrupt established monopolies. They follow a strict protocol designed to document the legitimacy of their activity. They also have very strict policies about who can join their group, and once inside every member must remain committed to the project.

The image above was just too perfect a fit for me not to fire up the GIMP and put it together. I was surprised by how easy it was to create.

The first rule of Clean Room is: you don't talk about Clean Room. Meaning, no communication with parties outside the Clean Room about the original implementation. All information about the original technology is passed through a strict filter that removes all copyrightable material.

One rule of Clean Room design that isn't immediately obvious is the requirement that clean-room code cannot pass outside the clean room until the project is finished. This ensures that no feedback loop is set up whereby parties outside the clean room influence the course of development in response to premature code releases. Thus, the second rule of Clean Room is: you do not talk about Clean Room.