On the subject of how to get money for Jsoftware. Perhaps a website could be set up whereby users who want some code written for them (i.e. not just asking a question but want a program written) could submit a specification of what would constitute a solution (e.g. what the input and output should be, or a % increase in speed of an existing algorithm) and a price they are willing to pay for it and the first person to post the solution gets the money, with Jsoftware taking a cut as the agent (I guess the rights to the code would belong to the buyer?).
If there was a CODECHECKER program that let you specify a set of test inputs and the required output then users could upload their attempted solutions which would be accepted and payment made based on the CODECHECKER verification that the task had been solved and both the programmer and requester are happy to trade. More complicated programs would require more money being offered to tempt programmers to find the solution. Perhaps the CODECHECKER could simply verify that a person (or people) have a solution and those programmers could submit competing bids ... or if only one person solves the problem they could demand more money. Obviously somebody would have to adjudicate that nobody was being tricked (like using a look up table to simply match the output to the inputs), but I trust that nobody would try such shenanigans! On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Brand replied to Morten Kromberg: > >>> True. Dyalog is only "cheap and easy to install" >> >> It's cheap but not free. > > By the standards of most of the Linux world, J is not free either. I > personally have no difficulty with J Software's implementation not > being open source, but it's important enough to some that we should > take care not to imply that it is in that category. > > Tracy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
