Quote: "The company today launched the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a competition it hopes will attract developers to create useful apps using Watson

Quote: "The company today launched the IBM Watson Mobile Developer Challenge, a competition it hopes will attract developers to create useful apps using Watson ... The challenge will last three months, and three winners will be selected, all of whom will get consulting help from Big Blue to build their app." I advise people to read the fine print. If IBM offers consulting help, they may be able to justify appropriating the winning entries without payment or with a token payment. I can't remember all the times a company that wanted to get their hands on some free software, instead of admitting "this is theft" instead said, "It's an exciting contest!" If IBM really wanted to produce some high-level technical interest in Watson, they would put Watson online, in the way that Wolfram Research put Wolfram Alpha online.