Comments on: When the business model is advertising http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: noaharkwrite http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-224 noaharkwrite Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:41:02 +0000 http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/#comment-224 Knowing that this commentary is a bit dated i keep it short. leveraging an open source piece of hardware might be as easy as simplifying the amount of technology it takes to reproduce it. it doesn't help the world if the world cant make it. admittedly that's a whole new ball game and means making the technology to create it much simpler. Knowing that this commentary is a bit dated i keep it short. leveraging an open source piece of hardware might be as easy as simplifying the amount of technology it takes to reproduce it. it doesn’t help the world if the world cant make it. admittedly that’s a whole new ball game and means making the technology to create it much simpler.

]]> By: tianqi http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-12 tianqi Mon, 12 May 2008 17:02:38 +0000 http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/#comment-12 Congratulations on your Time recognition. Please continue to blaze trails, candidly describe the technical and business challenges, and help us rethink computing and display devices. Interested in any comments you may have on the news of OS contractual limitations on small, low-power computers: http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=21271 The display lady needs two good eyes so here's wishing for a speedy recovery. Try some eye Qigong. Congratulations on your Time recognition. Please continue to blaze trails, candidly describe the technical and business challenges, and help us rethink computing and display devices.

Interested in any comments you may have on the news of OS contractual limitations on small, low-power computers:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?newsid=21271

The display lady needs two good eyes so here’s wishing for a speedy recovery. Try some eye Qigong.

]]> By: Opus http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Opus Sat, 03 May 2008 19:56:52 +0000 http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/#comment-9 Open Hardware If you follow a method common in academic research (which I am sure you are familiar with), where what is publicly reported or known is about five years behind your current research, that should allow enough protection [patents, commercial development/prototypes, etc.], yet fuel interest and private hacking/development. So, short answer, you will get to your goal of open hardware, it will just take a bit of time. If you would like to get something going quicker, then I would suggest that you post some interesting cutting edge research that is available but perhaps not widely known and ask for ideas regarding a specific application. This need not be your research but areas of interest to you. Something akin to what a major adviser would do with graduate students. Put a couple of people in charge of this project and pattern it after Thomas Edison's workshop, only brought into the 21st Century. "There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something." Opus Open Hardware

If you follow a method common in academic research (which I am sure you are familiar with), where what is publicly reported or known is about five years behind your current research, that should allow enough protection [patents, commercial development/prototypes, etc.], yet fuel interest and private hacking/development.

So, short answer, you will get to your goal of open hardware, it will just take a bit of time.

If you would like to get something going quicker, then I would suggest that you post some interesting cutting edge research that is available but perhaps not widely known and ask for ideas regarding a specific application. This need not be your research but areas of interest to you. Something akin to what a major adviser would do with graduate students.

Put a couple of people in charge of this project and pattern it after Thomas Edison’s workshop, only brought into the 21st Century.

“There are no rules here, we’re just trying to accomplish something.”

Opus

]]> By: Wayan http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Wayan Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:25:59 +0000 http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/04/21/when-the-business-model-is-advertising/#comment-2 With hardware, I think you have to be secretive and patent quickly, if only to defend and recover the significant upfront production costs. But you can always set up a patent system that once the ROI for screen makers reaches a certain point, whatever is deemed sufficient to entice production, and/or support the next round of innovation, the patent is opened for social impact usage. That way there is enough economic benefit to fund innovation, but not a stranglehold on product diffusion. <a href="http://www.benetech.org/" rel="nofollow">Bennetech</a> is a great example of this in software - it takes code from patent holders and re-purposes it for nonprofit use. With hardware, I think you have to be secretive and patent quickly, if only to defend and recover the significant upfront production costs.

But you can always set up a patent system that once the ROI for screen makers reaches a certain point, whatever is deemed sufficient to entice production, and/or support the next round of innovation, the patent is opened for social impact usage.

That way there is enough economic benefit to fund innovation, but not a stranglehold on product diffusion. Bennetech is a great example of this in software – it takes code from patent holders and re-purposes it for nonprofit use.

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