On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote: > The group is debating whether to only sell and at what price, or to give away > a "free" > Community version, and charge for support and the "Enterprise" version. The > fear is that > a free Community version will never generate any real sales on support on the > Enterprise > version.
I don't think that is the issue. Software is not something you sell any more. We give away software because that is how you sell yourself. You can develop better software if you make it free and open source because you get free testing and feedback from users. It is the approach I have used successfully in developing data compression software. I am glad that OpenCog uses this approach too. I think the issue with not getting offers on OpenCog is that it doesn't do anything yet. As I understand it, OpenCog is a complex knowledge representation system with hundreds of classes, a "programming language" for developing AI. But it lacks a knowledge base and lacks testing on real-world applications. It is not clear to me how it could be helpful to do, say, face recognition or language translation or a self-driving car. How would OpenCog save me time in developing a competitor to Watson? AI has three very difficult and expensive components: software, knowledge, and computing power. IMHO, software is the least expensive part. OpenCog doesn't address the larger obstacles. In order to convince me that it is useful, it needs to be tested on a real world problem with all the components, like solving some problem using millions of images on thousands of processors. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
