Dilema

[John Tapsell]

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> > Being a uni student, I'm obviously very
> > pleased and excited, but if I did this I would have to make it closed
> > source,
>
> Have the VCs explicitly said that?

They said that in business you need to find a way to protect your goods by 
'black box'ing it.  

>
> > and indeed actively protect it.
>
> What if you made it time-delayed open source, like Ghostscript? Would
> they go for that?

I got mixed reactions about this - they said companies tend to look at a 
period of 1.5 years - so even if I told the companies I was going to open 
source it in 2 years time, they wouldn't care and it wouldn't affect their 
plans to buy it.

Also my exit strategy is 3 years - I couldn't OS it before then - in the 
third year I'd be paying back close to several thousand pound a month in 
loans, so I daren't do anything to upset the cash flow during that time ;)

But after that it would be fine.  But then who knows where we'll be in 3 
years...  

>
> >   Again, the problem is that it would benefit (IMHO) linux a lot,
>
> Even as closed source?

Nope - thats the problem.

JohnFlux

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