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[Aleader-dev] Re: productization vs open source
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Joshua N Pritikin |
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[Aleader-dev] Re: productization vs open source |
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Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:30:59 +0530 |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:44:28PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:07:50PM -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> > > One quick question though...(Btw, thanks V V much for pointing out that
> > > the DANVA costs $250. Holly mollee!)...suppose we were to productize
> > > something based on Aleader. Since it has knoppix inside (I am presuming
> > > it has some sort of open source type licensing), does its licensing
> > > disallow one to make a product based on knoppix?
> >
> > The short answer is "no". We can sell something. That's how
> > Red Hat or Suse are able to sell Linux distributions. The only
> > wrinkle is that we must provide complete source code.
>
> Right. As I understand it RH (and presumablye Suse), make their money
> via documentation, support, handholding etc...So, that is one business
> model.
Yah, and I like that business model. I could go for that.
> How about other business models...E.g. can someone pervert things and
> make a small change to the source and sell their own version?
No, that's exactly what the GPL is designed to prevent.
> Can we
> anticipate this and add a twist to our own version of copyleft or whatever
> it is called that says if you make a gizmo based on our gizmo and sell
> it, you must give us 5% of whatever you make?
It might be possible, but that would slow down adoption of the test.
That's why I would be against it.
> Another issue is that in the psychological realm one needs to validate a
> thing on a large group of subjects. Sometimes this means getting norms
> so that a score based on a test administration can be clinically useful.
> This can be quite expensive. Psycorp (not to be confused with the homonym
> Cycorp) spends big bucks getting their tests validated from a broad sample
> of kiddos all over the US...Psychologists don't work for free because
> they have to pay lawyers for malpractice insurance.
OK, but I believe the way to get into a big revenue stream is to
convince a large number of psychologists that our test is
extremely useful.
> Well, maybe the reason I am delving into this is the following: if I can
> financially justify working on this now, then I can feel less guilty
> working on it. I get the sense you aren't interested much at all in
> productizability.
I am interested in productizability, but only _after_ we somehow
generate a lot of demand.
I can't predict or promise anything about monetary payback.
Get your expenses down, income up, and try to increase your
free time. That's what I did.
On the other hand, if we can somehow show how test results are
correlated with career performance (like Goleman) then there
will be lots of opportunities: human resources, training,
tutorials, and education. Our research has to be air-tight
though.
The really speculative stuff is in my writings on philosophy
and religion. There is a potential jackpot there, but we still
have a long way to go before we are even close.
--
.. Sensual .. Perceptual .. Cognitive .. Emotional .. Oh My!
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, (continued)
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, Joshua N Pritikin, 2003/08/05
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, William L. Jarrold, 2003/08/06
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, Joshua N Pritikin, 2003/08/07
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, William L. Jarrold, 2003/08/09
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, Joshua N Pritikin, 2003/08/11
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, William L. Jarrold, 2003/08/22
- [Aleader-dev] Re: direction, Joshua N Pritikin, 2003/08/23
- [Aleader-dev] to do item: 2003-08-09 read/comment on recent manual, William L. Jarrold, 2003/08/09
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- [Aleader-dev] Re: thanks and productization vs open source (was Re: pictures), Joshua N Pritikin, 2003/08/11
- [Aleader-dev] Re: thanks and productization vs open source (was Re: pictures), William L. Jarrold, 2003/08/11
- [Aleader-dev] Re: productization vs open source,
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[Aleader-dev] Re: direction, William L. Jarrold, 2003/08/22