NohoBoy@ACDSoft.com wrote:
>
> To put it bluntly, if this effort is only for the enrichment of
> Stanford and BI, we choose not to play. I suspect that there are
> a number of people on this list who feel the same way.
>
That's not going to happen. Doug is adamant that the project has
to be open source. But *any* long-term business model has to have
a revenue stream somewhere. The Stanford proposition is one way
of doing that -- build an open-source technology that you can use
in *some* way to make a product.
For example, if the technology allows the creation of a knowledge
repository, then one way to build on that technology is to sell a
an oil-drilling knowledge base, or a metal refining knowledge base.
Heck, maybe a fix-your-computer knowledge base.
Not that any of those make any real sense. But hopefully you get
the idea that there are some kinds of things that can be built
*using* a tool that still allows the tool to be open source.
Doug plans to make 110% sure that any such licensing arrangement
will not interfere with the evolution of the system, and I trust
him to watch out for that. What the projects are remain to be seen,
but I am optimisitic that we will be able to work out something
reasonable -- possibly even in timely fashion.
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