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Re: New forum topic - Open Control
Feb 11, 2002 3:06 pm, by Jiri Baum
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Greg Schiller:
> I would agree. People who use technology only want one thing from it.
> Does it work. The next thing they want is if it is broke where can I get
> a replacment. Forklifts do amazing things for our economy.
> Totally free, open system can fill niches but no one dedicates real R and
> D dollars to making something they may never own in the future.
As you say in the first paragraph - does it work?
Once the core of an OSS product exists, people who take advantage of it can extend it in minor ways, add bits and pieces they need, swap the extensions the same way as they swap Lisp functions in the AutoCAD world.
Obviously, for that to work the core must be there; but we (MAT) are well on the way to building it, so it's not ridiculous to suppose it'll appear.
> I would like to take your money to make this very cool niche product that
> I will then give the rights away to the public. How am I going to pay you
> back? I'm not. I can't. No one has bought my idea from me.
No, but the machine now works - and that's worth something.
Most software in the Automation world is epiphenomenal - it has no meaning in itself except as a side-effect of producing something else, something real and useful.
Jiri
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