On 19/01/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about this: the database would be open for anyone to download, for experimentation or whatever purpose. Only when someone wants to incorporate the data in an AGI, would a license fee be needed. Also I would make the inference engine etc opensource, again within a commercial context. This approach is not so common but I think it gets the best of both worlds.
This might be ok. You could distribute any funds from commercial licenses proportionately amongst those people who had entered the data. However, such a system might be difficult to enforce. I think we'll soon be entering an age where the internet becomes a big knowledge crunching monster, with information from one source being processed and spat out to other destinations in a completely automated way. It would be very hard to tell in this situation exactly who was using the data, or indeed what the original source of the data was. If a commercial model is adopted it should be made clear that this isn't a get rich quick scheme. If people start entering data believing that they're soon going to be making money out of it after a year or two with no financial return in sight dissapointment sets in, which quickly leads to bad press and people losing interest in the project. This seems to be what happened with the original mindpixel. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
