I suggest if you want to profit from your software that you release it open source with a GPL license. Any company that wants to use it and doesn't want to open source their own software will need another license from you. In either case, you are advertising your software skills and you are the best candidate for integrating your software into their product and maintaining it.
Just my experience seeing lots of failed attempts by data compression developers to sell a product that competes with free and better tested products. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 11:12 AM stefan.reich.maker.of.eye via AGI < [email protected]> wrote: > OK, turns out my compression algorithm is basically known, it's called > Re-Pair. Ah well. I'm not sure if a linear time implementation had been > found before mine, see e.g. here > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2093223/optimizing-byte-pair-encoding/63206691> > . > > However, I think I am doing new things with it, for example fast full-text > searching. That latter part will not be open source anymore for the time > being. I'll see how well it works, but it strikes me as a very marketable > product. Everyone and their dog is searching in large text corpora daily. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery > options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb2cf064c700f181c-M0de0199a059f015ed4c22cf7> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb2cf064c700f181c-Mc88372443725f83b46cfd182 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
