Say I hear from you that it's possible to sync speakers and repeat this to my best engineers. Just the notion of syncing speakers reveals nothing about how it's done so neither my engineers nor I have "learnt" anything.
The engineer goes and puts together a prototype which gets enterprise buy-in and is released to the general public.
Who is the teacher in this case? I'd argue that no one taught anyone anything.
Oh, btw OP's post taught you to watch out for your intellectual property when negotiating with anyone. Will you now compensate him every time you walk into a meeting and remind yourself not to give away your trade secrets?
The engineer goes and puts together a prototype which gets enterprise buy-in and is released to the general public.
Who is the teacher in this case? I'd argue that no one taught anyone anything.
Oh, btw OP's post taught you to watch out for your intellectual property when negotiating with anyone. Will you now compensate him every time you walk into a meeting and remind yourself not to give away your trade secrets?