On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may end up being the reason it would make sense to either > find a foundation to accept copyright assignment, or to create > an 'OpenGraphics Foundation' to hold the copyrights and trademarks. > Sadly, the Open Hardware Foundation didn't survive. > > The foundation can then fund Timothy's research, at which point > the university will happly do whatever it's funding agents want. This is another interesting issue. Personally, I think that the best place for me to invest this project's revenue is in research at BU, followed by other universities. But if I were to do that, I'd get smacked silly by people who declare that I'm allowing my personal biases to interfere with what's best for the project. I freely admit that I do have this bias: If I didn't REALLY LIKE BU, I'd have gone to work at one of the other places that made me an offer rather than end up living in a somewhat isolated small-ish town in upstate New York. Also, people won't like having NYS take a big chunk of the money. (Note: I actually really like the Binghamton area. It's a beautiful place, not overrun with too much urban sprawl, but urban enough that we don't feel like we're completely isolated from civilization. But not everyone feels that way. It's nice that NYC is a 4-hour bus ride away, but I'd never want to live there.) -- Timothy Normand Miller, PhD Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Binghamton University http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~millerti/<http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti> Open Graphics Project
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