You wrote;
> Putting machines on the market is not ALWAYS the way to success,
> Jerry.
I'm not advocating commercial success, just availability of a product or
technology to USE....how best to do that?
1) Assemble the parts and build it yourself, hoping it would work?
How many people do you know that WOULD or COULD do that? Perhaps
a kit or plans for those who would WANT to do that....
2) Make the things up and sell them through networks and word of
mouth, then when there were tens of thousands of them out there and
IN USE on a daily basis, that's when you go fully public. Still,
the units need to be built and sold by someone, that's how patents
and licenses work.
3) Most people just want to be able to go to WalMart and buy it off
the shelf, ready to hook up...ideally in the form of a 'perpetual
battery' that runs for 20 years of so to provide power to a single
appliance, say rated at 200, 500 and 1000 watts each?? Then you
either incorporate it into the product at manufacture or sell these
battery units so you just buy what you need and plug in to it...way
cool...and it would operate ANYWHERE...no more grids....again,
someone has to build and distribute those units.
I used to know a lawyer who turned out to be a crook...but I must say he
had the right idea...he said 'well, what are you going to do if you or
someone else builds a working prototype? Release or sell the plans and
others will take it and improve on it and throw you away like old
newspaper.'
He said, 'OK, so don't patent it or try to lock it in, but why not have a
warehouse full of these things ready to sell when the market first
demands it, make your fortune from that first deman....then you always
try to have your next improvement or other products ready to follow.'
He also said, 'It's just hard to make money without playing hardball with
the rest of the world, they will CERTAINLY steal and profit from your
invention, leaving you cold and starving.'
That is part of why the shareware proposal was generated, if your name is
forever associated with it, you get credit and good things MUST COME of
it....like it says, why do you have to have millions and millions of
bucks just to live and do what you want (within reason)?
So, I'd be happy to just have the working units to USE personally, unless
it was my own invention, then I would do the shareware format FOR
CERTAIN..freely distributed, urged to build and grow from it, you have to
plant the seeds to reap the fruit.....
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