on 07/30/2008 10:35 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
now which license to use?
it is bad enough explaining SaaS (software as a service), and open
source and data mining to lawyers, without the experts fighting it as
well.
and who pays for the cloud computing expenses for me then if there is
no money in it. cloud computing doesnt exist in India right now from
where I am writing this?
As I noted in my reply, there is nothing preventing you using FOSS to
create a value added service, from which you can generate profitable
income.
If there was, Red Hat would not be a public company with shareholders,
Canonical (Ubuntu's commercial sponsor) would not exist and Dell would
not be selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Whether anyone will actually pay you for your service is another
question and a business risk that you have to evaluate.
That being said, if you are planning to start up a company based upon
the use of FOSS as your foundation, get yourself a lawyer familiar with
it and fire any lawyer that you are currently using who is not. There
are lawyers with the requisite experience in both FOSS and IP.
This is not the proper forum to seek business development advice.
Marc Schwartz
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