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Professors of computer science arent always the best people to take business advice from. First question to ask is do you want to make a business from your pro
by daleharvey 16y ago
Professors of computer science arent always the best people to take business advice from.
First question to ask is do you want to make a business from your project? if so, then you really need to worry about IP rights, which are commonly given to the university if I am not mistaken.
Assuming you do want to make a business and IP issues can be worked around, then you can begin to question whether open source is best or not. Without knowing more about the project its impossible to give any suggestion either way, all I can say is being open source does not mean you cannot build a business by any means, a lot of people conflate open source = no money but that is not at all true.
- kiriappeee 16y agoAs far as IP rights go a lot of the project will be what I do after I leave university. But I've already spoken to heads and have worked around that issue. In fact they'd be my first investors, but advised against open source. So IP is workable. As for what the project is it's pretty hush hush right now before I decide anything but to give an idea of size it would include AI and an NLP engine built into it. It's got a lot of business potential as well. If that would help with an idea of where I should go? And again. Question is. How do open source teams actually make money out of projects like this?
- smoody 16y agotechnical support packages sold to enterprise customers.
- michaelchisari 16y agoAnd customization services.