Matt, In addition to "open" and proprietary development, there is a THIRD path that I am exploring with *our thing*.
Herein I welcome other participants, and assure rewards proportional to their contributions. Eventually there will be a session where a cooperative decision making process divides the spoils. Until the IP becomes public, I must treat it as proprietary, using NDAs, etc. I suspect that you could be doing the same, so that you and the other contributors could make some money from your developments. After all, what is the value of "open source" to those who don't participate? Nothing. However, you must sacrifice the entire value of your efforts to feed them nothing. Steve ================ On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with Ben that patenting parts of OpenCog is a bad idea. If you > wan't other people to help you improve your open source code for free, > then you don't want to scare them away. > > My PAQ based compression algorithms did not make it to the top of the > benchmarks by my work alone. I made it open source and explicitly did > not patent it so that others could work on it freely. For many people > their sole incentive is to see their name at the top of a leader > board. (This can also lead to a good job, as it did in my case). > > I know of some compression algorithms that are patented, such as CTW > and the sort transform. They are actually good algorithms but > essentially went nowhere because people had free, open source > alternatives. The JPEG standard includes both a Huffman code and an > arithmetic coding format. Arithmetic coding compresses about 10% > smaller than most images you see today, but nobody ever implemented it > because at the time there was a patent on arithmetic coding. It has > expired now, and it is used in nearly all modern algorithms. It is > unlikely we will ever see it in JPEG, however, because most software > does not support it. > > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
