Laurel Fan wrote:
>
> The same thing I'd do if I was a struggling college student who is
> developing an OS that has a chance to be in demand: release it as free
> software, and if it's as great as I think it is, I'll have no trouble
> getting a high paying job doing what I want to (at a secretive chip
> startup, perhaps?). Personally, I don't know any college students with
> the money to get a patent anyway.
My husband is currently developing something that's likely to be
VERY lucrative - for a while. In time, other people will be able
to figure out how he did it, and replicate the process. (The
commercial advantage will be with the original users, however.)
This doesn't bother him. But he doesn't want to be blocked from
the initial cash. Hell, if we get that cash NOW, we can tell
my doctor to ignore the costs, go ahead and do whatever it takes
to make me well. (So I'm greedy - at least as far as my health
goes!)
We don't want to prevent people from legitimately solving the
problem themselves. But we want /our/ way of doing it protected,
at least until we've got the reasonable reward for our labout.
(yeah, 'our'. I count chewing it over with him while theoretically
watching 'Buffy' to be work.)
So .. is it wrong for us to investigate patents/copyright/whatever?
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn
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