You didn't understand the true "edge-based" genius of Beckstrom's Law. Applied to Pizza it would be:
"The value of all the worlds pizzas equals precisely the value that each pizza eater attaches to their pizza."
Yeah, this is the funniest slashdot article I have seen in a while. It becomes even funnier considering that this dude is actually serious about his conjecture. First, I thought it was a mere April's fool joke.
True. I have a first generation iPod Touch and it hasn't got a mic. However, people have managed to get an external mic working with it, just google for touchmod, these guys have done awesome stuff! They also have made a VOIP client for the Touch, quite some time ago.
Minor nitpick unrelated to your argument: A lot of aluminum smelting plants and large paper mills have their own power generation facilities or have entered into some sort of co-op for generating the power they need rather than paying a power company.
Which is why Iceland has a huge aluminium smelting industry. They build these plants literally right upon builing water, so the energy comes well cheap for them.
Distance is always an important factor, even in IT.
100% ack. The "more eyeballs - bugs shallow" idea turns out to be little more than an elusive Idealtyp if you look at the openssl Debian desaster. Replacing all the certificates that are floating around and calming down eventually is gonna cost tons of money. I don't know about the US, but here in Germany Debian is huge and the number one choice for servers.
It's a little like with airbags or fastened seat belts. They tend to work. But if you drive more recklessly as a result the net effect is zero if not negative.
Mind you, I reckon the more people switch to Linux the fewer will bother to even check the checksums of the files they download and install. Let alone look into the source code of their Firefox.
Well, wouldn't the information on a scientific wiki/collaboration be covered under a GPL? That would prevent someone from using your contributions for profit.
No it wouldn't. The default state of things is that every contributor holds copyright, if copyright applies at all, to his contributions.
Plus, GPL type of licensing would actually be a very sensible strategy for a project, precisely because it facilitates derivative works as long as they are themselves published under the GPL. However, you wouldn't want to use GPL for such endeavour, you'd better go for a non-NC creative commons license, that is, one that explicitly permits profits to be made from the work by any third person.
As for credits - and this is no reply to your argument but a separate thought - I reckon that if credits were the only motivation for people to do stuff we'd still be in the stone age. Put differently (and I'm claiming credit for that meme;-)) without uncompensated externalities you wouldn't have any progress whatsoever. Everything possible future value added to an artefact would be part of the initial contracts, and that would stifle just about everything.
Publish your invention. As a result it will be prior art to anyone who would want to copy your invention and get it patented. The publication will, of course, have to be court proof, so you will want to consider professional services such as ip.com.
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You didn't understand the true "edge-based" genius of Beckstrom's Law. Applied to Pizza it would be:
"The value of all the worlds pizzas equals precisely the value that each pizza eater attaches to their pizza."
Yeah, this is the funniest slashdot article I have seen in a while. It becomes even funnier considering that this dude is actually serious about his conjecture. First, I thought it was a mere April's fool joke.
He seems to have "resigned" according to his website. Maybe he can use his new found spare time and improve his seminal finding!
True. I have a first generation iPod Touch and it hasn't got a mic. However, people have managed to get an external mic working with it, just google for touchmod, these guys have done awesome stuff! They also have made a VOIP client for the Touch, quite some time ago.
Minor nitpick unrelated to your argument: A lot of aluminum smelting plants and large paper mills have their own power generation facilities or have entered into some sort of co-op for generating the power they need rather than paying a power company.
Which is why Iceland has a huge aluminium smelting industry. They build these plants literally right upon builing water, so the energy comes well cheap for them.
Distance is always an important factor, even in IT.
100% ack. The "more eyeballs - bugs shallow" idea turns out to be little more than an elusive Idealtyp if you look at the openssl Debian desaster. Replacing all the certificates that are floating around and calming down eventually is gonna cost tons of money. I don't know about the US, but here in Germany Debian is huge and the number one choice for servers.
It's a little like with airbags or fastened seat belts. They tend to work. But if you drive more recklessly as a result the net effect is zero if not negative.
Mind you, I reckon the more people switch to Linux the fewer will bother to even check the checksums of the files they download and install. Let alone look into the source code of their Firefox.
Well, wouldn't the information on a scientific wiki/collaboration be covered under a GPL? That would prevent someone from using your contributions for profit.
No it wouldn't. The default state of things is that every contributor holds copyright, if copyright applies at all, to his contributions.Plus, GPL type of licensing would actually be a very sensible strategy for a project, precisely because it facilitates derivative works as long as they are themselves published under the GPL. However, you wouldn't want to use GPL for such endeavour, you'd better go for a non-NC creative commons license, that is, one that explicitly permits profits to be made from the work by any third person.
As for credits - and this is no reply to your argument but a separate thought - I reckon that if credits were the only motivation for people to do stuff we'd still be in the stone age. Put differently (and I'm claiming credit for that meme
Publish your invention. As a result it will be prior art to anyone who would want to copy your invention and get it patented. The publication will, of course, have to be court proof, so you will want to consider professional services such as ip.com.