How to protect an idea?

Question

Law in IT

The question is why, for example, I came up with the idea of ​​developing infrastructure on the topic of information technology.
It may take years or even decades to implement this idea. How to protect the idea so that it would not be stolen, or protect it (the idea) from the fact that in the future (when I develop it) it did not occur to someone else. Sometimes people have the same thoughts.
After reading several articles, in order to come up with something and defend it, it’s not enough to just be smart or, let’s say, an “inventor”, you also need to be rich. Since the prices for registration of patents and other things go for hundreds of thousands of rubles.
Of course, I am ready to spend money for the benefit of protecting an idea, but I don’t have numerous tens or even hundreds of thousands of rubles.
It turns out that in our country, those who walk the golden stairs and roll on machines with a scattering of diamonds can invent, or there is some alternative way to protect the idea.
Also, after reading several articles, it is written to declare a product, a layout is needed ... but how?)
How can I make a layout of a system or program?
Here, too, it is not clear.
I ask knowledgeable people to answer. And those who came just to blurt out some nonsense, please go about your business.
Thank you for your attention.

Answer 1

The idea itself is worth nothing. Some well-known businessmen even argue that the cost of ideas is negative. There is only one reliable way to protect an idea - by implementing it so well that no one in the world can do it better.

Answer 2

This one was of particular interest:
If you have such an understanding of progress, then there are serious doubts about the usefulness of the idea that came to your mind.
Have you ever thought that almost all really worthwhile ideas - and even great ideas - simultaneously occurred to several people?
Differential and integral calculus - Newton and Leibniz.
Darwin's theory - to him and Alfred Russell Wallace.
Logarithms were discovered independently by Napier and Bürgi.
Boyle's law - Mariotte - is so named because the two made this discovery almost simultaneously and independently of each other.
Spots on the sun were discovered at the same time in 1611 by four (!!!) different scientists.
And Charles Cros - invented the gramophone a couple of months earlier than Edison, and color photography - with a difference of half a year with Ducos du Auron. (In unlucky guy).
In today's world - personal computers - look who, when and how began to release them.
Search engines and social networks - remember their history.
So you can not flatter yourself - if your idea did not come to someone else's mind, then be sure - no one needs it.
But I will tell you one terrible secret. Even if a super-duper brilliant idea came to your mind right now that will bring you millions and worldwide fame, and you are now thinking about how to achieve your own monopoly on it - be sure that somewhere in America, Japan, China or and Popua New Guinea, right now, someone else has already begun to implement it. And while you are thinking - he will become an inventor and all the laurels and millions will go to him.
The first one has a head start, but in today's world it does not have a monopoly.
And remember - Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg were neither rich nor first. But they went to the goal, and did not think how to protect themselves from someone.
Therefore, advice - do not fool around, but start implementing your idea. No money - look for an investor. Yes, please share with him. He will give you what you do not have, and for this you will share both fame and money with him. And there is nothing shameful or humiliating in this. Use your handicap, if you have one, of course.

Answer 3

Court in the mountains. - Gogi, why did you kill Givi? . - For a dream! - Explain to the court. Gogi: - I didn't kill him because he climbed to the second floor of my wife, stuntman, you know! And not for sleeping with my wife and mother-in-law, taster, you know! And for the fact that when I let him down the stairs, he said: "I'll be back here!" Dreamer, you know...

Answer 4

Ideas are not subject to legislative protection. A patent can only be obtained for implementation.
For example, there is an idea to make a laptop, but only a specific model is subject to patenting.