Hmmm... Proprietary works.
Open source works. Each has their flaws, but both basically do work for generating software via collective human effort... What you are suggesting, sounds like a mess that would not work... One problem with your suggestion is that the "assignment of credit" problem is really really hard. You are trying to solve it via a scheme of "collective contribution ratings", and I don't think that can work in a context where the interactions between contributions are so complex, and the time-scales on which different contributions are helpful vary so widely. Open-source solves this problem by largely avoiding it: credit=status in the open-source world, but precise quantification of status is never required. Proprietary solves this problem by giving certain individuals (managers) the power to judge contributions of individuals on a project-wide scale. Managers' judgments are not always perfect, of course, but in a well-run organization they are generally meaningful... -- Ben G On 6/1/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How about some brainstorming...? My proposal is this: 1. People post their ideas onto a wiki and discuss them, while carefully keeping a record of who has said what. Also, each person suggests an amount of how much the contribution is worth. If the amount is outrageous people can make complaints about it. 2. Suppose the group end up with some useful ideas / algorithms. Each result will be collectively owned by that result's contributors. 3. Suppose someone (a developer) wants to take a result and implement it? The developer will have to pay a license fee to the contributors, the fee being proportional to the total estimated worth of its "constituents". 4. Also, everyone who participates, must sign a non-disclosure and non-competitive agreement (NDA & NCA). There should also be some way to verify the person's identity. 5. I think this scheme can work for existing AGI projects like Novamente. It will not compromise the control over their ideas / intellectual property because of the NDA & NCA. 6. If something is deemed patent-worthy, the patent will be collectively owned as in (2). The licensing price will be set analogous to (2), so it won't be outrageous. How's that? YKY ------------------------------ 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/?&;
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