Gilberto Camara wrote:
(c) Many innovations are produced at academic institutions. Most of those institutions have no incentive nor mission to support open-source development projects. Taking these innovations out of academia and giving them institutional support (private or public) is a way to ensuring these innovations are exposed to the market. Those with real value will survive.
Some academic institutions have programs that help develop "support" for innovations, such as the University-Industry Liaison Office at the University of British Columbia: http://www.uilo.ubc.ca/about_mission.asp To help evangelize OS, one of the useful elements is 'use cases', to show prospective users of OS software why/how they can make use of the various OS software relevant to their needs. Perhaps people can also develop 'use cases' to show academic institutions the value of assisting innovation to flourish in an OS environment, without necessarily focusing on patents and building wealth. -- Dave Patton CIS Canadian Information Systems Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator Technical Coordinator http://www.confluence.org/ OSGeo FOSS4G2007 conference: Workshop Committee Chair Conference Committee member http://www.foss4g2007.org/ Personal website: Maps, GPS, etc. http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss