I think you're absolutely right. I work for a research lab that does employee satisfaction surveys. It's the surveys themselves and the reports based on those surveys that our client's pay us for. I've written our web survey app with Open Source Software and am currently writing a report generator as well. I could give away the source to these projects (and am trying to convince the PHB to let me do so) and our competitors wouldn't be any better off because that's not what we (or they) sell. They may be able to produce similar types of reports but if their survey is invalid, then their results will be invalid. The software we use doesn't define our business, the fact that we produce valid results using that software does. Hopefully I'll soon be able to release all the code I've written as an open source project but that won't change the way we make our money.
This monkey has a perfect record picking winners in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
And I'm sure that sport simultations are more sophisticated than a monkey spinning a wheel, right?
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I think you're absolutely right. I work for a research lab that does employee satisfaction surveys. It's the surveys themselves and the reports based on those surveys that our client's pay us for. I've written our web survey app with Open Source Software and am currently writing a report generator as well. I could give away the source to these projects (and am trying to convince the PHB to let me do so) and our competitors wouldn't be any better off because that's not what we (or they) sell. They may be able to produce similar types of reports but if their survey is invalid, then their results will be invalid. The software we use doesn't define our business, the fact that we produce valid results using that software does. Hopefully I'll soon be able to release all the code I've written as an open source project but that won't change the way we make our money.
So will this be like an Etch-A-Sketch then?
Rather than spending all that time formatting the disk, you just shake it and all your data disappears.
Just to clarify, Silicon Knights is based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Read the "About S.K." here.
It's all available online from samba.org: Note: There are a couple of chapters that are missing from these versions but all-in-all it should answer most of your questions.
This monkey has a perfect record picking winners in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
And I'm sure that sport simultations are more sophisticated than a monkey spinning a wheel, right?