Steve, I went back and re-read your blog to see if your thinking had evolved with something new but it does not seem to have changed.
You want to 'open source' your software but keep part of it patented. It's nice that you are interested in FOSS but it doesn't work that way. If you want it to be open source, you need to give it all away and not put restrictions on it. Don't expect FOSS to make a special 'Steve' license. Your blog is a bit testy and accusatory but I don't think you should take it personally. You don't have a FOSS product. Just release it as a commercial product and rake it the big bucks from your 'tens of thousands of dollars of investment over the past 15 years'. We all wish you the best. Just stop calling us names and getting your shorts all knotted up. .Mark On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Stephen Beller<sbel...@nhds.com> wrote: > I didn't think you were pointing to me, Fred, but I do thank you anyway for > clarifying. > > To follow up on Alvin's comment, I have several other programs I'm > considering licensing as FOSS, but the functions that I believe would be most > useful to the FOSS community consist of a radical/disruptive (novel and > non-obvious) underlying patented methodology. The problem is that the BOD and > shareholders in our small company simply refuse adopt a FOSS license since it > would mean relinquishing the tens of thousands of dollars and man-hours we've > invested over past 15 years, even though I personally believe in the FOSS > model. This is why I've not been able to participate as much as I would like. > I've discussed this issue on my blog at > http://opensourceandpatents.blogspot.com/. > > While a free *noncommercial* use license would be acceptable, the idea that > other companies could profit from the methodology for which we've invested so > much, but without even minimal return on our investment, is simply not > acceptable to those in my company. I was hoping for some mutually acceptable > solutions, but at this time I still do not know how to resolve this dilemma. > > Steve > > --- In openhealth@yahoogroups.com, Alvin Marcelo <alvin.marc...@...> wrote:
