On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Russell Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A good idea and a euro will get you a cup of coffee. Whoever said you > need to protect ideas is just shilly-shallying you. Ideas have no > market value; anyone capable of taking them up, already has more ideas > of his own than time to implement them. Don't take my word for it, > look around you; do you see people on this list going, I'm ready to > start work, someone give me an idea please? No, you see people going, > here are my ideas, and other people going, great thanks, but I've > already got my own. > > What people will pay for is to have their problems solved. If you want > to get paid for AI, I think the best hope is to make as an open-source > project, and offer support, consultancy etc. It's a model that has > worked for other types of open source software.
But how do you explain the fact that many of today's top financially successful companies rely on closed-source software? A recent example is Google's search engine, which remains closed source. If they had open-sourced their search engine, my guess is that there would be many more copy-cats now all over the world. True, ideas are in abundance, but in the same design space people tend to converge on the same ideas. So competition depends on those few ideas. Also, there are innovative ideas that solve some bottleneck problems, which are very valuable. YKY ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
