Bob... ... and of course, OSS does not contradict paying programmers to write software.
I have no plans to dissolve Novamente LLC, for example ;-p ... we're actually doing better than ever ... And, I note that SIAI is now paying 2 programmers (one full time, one 3/5 time) to work on OpenCog specifically ... And we will have a bunch of students getting paid by Google to code for OpenCog this summer, under the Google Summer of Code program... It is certainly true that a paid team of full-time programmers can address certain sorts of issues faster and more efficiently than a distributed team of part-timers. My idea is not to replace the former with the latter, but rather to make use of both, working toward closely overlapping goals... -- Ben G On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until a true AGI is developed I think it will remain necessary to pay > programmers to write programs, at least some of the time. You can't > always rely upon voluntary effort, especially when the problem you > want to solve is fairly obscure. > > > > > > > On 19/04/2008, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Translation: We all (me included) now accept as reasonable that in order > to > > > briefly earn a living wage, that we must develop radically new and > useful > > > technology and then just give it away. > > > > ... > > > Steve Richfield > > > > The above is obviously a "straw man" statement ... but I think it > > **is** true these days that open-sourcing one's code is a viable way > > to get one's software vision realized, and is not necessarily > > contradictory with making a profit. > > > > This doesn't mean that OSS is the only path, nor that it's necessarily > > an easy thing to make work... > > > > > > -- Ben > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > agi > > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > > > > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." -- Henry Miller ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
