Software Developper

[JP IV]

Hi someone can help me ?


I have developped software and i want known the commertial potential of my work

Someone has software contacts where I can make demo ?


JPIII

[0pal_t0ad]

I think you should patent it, then create a demo and try posting it on tucows.com and similar sites.

[Dave Sell]

Originally posted by JP IV
Hi someone can help me ?
I have developped software and i want known the commertial potential of my work
Someone has software contacts where I can make demo ?
JPIII

What about download.com?

[szlamany]

Patent it? Where do you come up with this suggestion?

A patent can be a 2 or 3 year process costing thousands of dollars. You have to have something to patent - a novel approach to a unique situation that has never been thought of before - I've not seen too many of those in my 25 years of developing commercial applications.

Even a trademark will take the same time and cost the same about of money.

If you don't expose your "source" code - then you run no risk of a direct theft of your "internal" ideas.

As to the "use and look" of the software - you cannot really protect yourself from someone seeing what your app does and deciding they could do the same thing if they wrote it themselves.

[Wokawidget]

What does your software do?
Do you have a screenshot?

What do you mean by "make a demo"...have you not written the software yet???

Woka

[Dave Sell]

Originally posted by Wokawidget
What does your software do?
Do you have a screenshot?
What do you mean by "make a demo"...have you not written the software yet???
Woka

I think by "make a demo" he means to release a crippled "demo" version of the fully functinonal software.

[0pal_t0ad]

Originally posted by szlamany
Patent it? Where do you come up with this suggestion?

DUDE, i mean that GNU or GPL or whatever it's called.

[Dave Sell]

Originally posted by 0pal_t0ad
DUDE, i mean that GNU or GPL or whatever it's called.

I'm not sure Windows programmers have much use for the GPL...

[0pal_t0ad]

i'm sure i've seen a program written in VB somewhere that was registered under GNU/GPL, but i could be wrong.

[JP IV]

Send you more detail soon....

[szlamany]

gnu gpl - here's a link...

It is all about sharing "your proprietary" rights - creating FREEWARE

http://www.ie.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html

[RobDog888]

Actually, a Copyright © for a program is only $30.00. The form
can be submitted with a printout of the first 25 and last 25 pages
of printed code and a copy of your code/program on cd. Once
they receive it the data starts from then.

Check out US Copyright Office

A Trademark ™ for you program name or logos only needs to be
used next to your name or logo, but is not as solid as a
Registered Trademark.

A Registered Trademark cost about $1,000.00 a year and allows
you to use the ® symbol with your program name for example. If
you use a registered trademark logo without being registered,
you could be fined.

[baja_yu]

Isnt GNU only for open source??? Not much use for copyrighting with that...

And regarding download.com and twocows.net, I heard that they are pretty expensive to post apps on.

Did you think about one of those online selling sites, like you register and post your app and they resell it through their registered affiliates, for a precentage of course... My firend has a site and is registered as an affiliate. He makes $500 per month on average...

[szlamany]

Originally posted by RobDog888
Actually, a Copyright © for a program is only $30.00. The form
can be submitted with a printout of the first 25 and last 25 pages
of printed code and a copy of your code/program on cd. Once
they receive it the data starts from then.

If no one will be seeing the SOURCE CODE - why do an official USPO copyright? We put COPYRIGHT blurbs at the top of all our functions and modules - we feel that is more than enough to protect us - if someone finds the SOURCE CODE and cuts off the copyright and makes it their own - we would have a good case against them - that's petty theft...

From the link you supplied - a copyright is immediate - upon the creation of the source code on the original programmers computer.

Copyright is secured automatically when the work is created, and a work is "created" when it is fixed in a copy or phonorecord for the first time. "Copies" are material objects from which a work can be read or visually perceived either directly or with the aid of a machine or device, such as books, manuscripts, sheet music, film, videotape, or microfilm. "Phonorecords" are material objects embodying fixations of sounds (excluding, by statutory definition, motion picture soundtracks), such as cassette tapes, CDs, or LPs. Thus, for example, a song (the "work") can be fixed in sheet music (" copies") or in phonograph disks (" phonorecords"), or both.

Our business currently holds two TRADEMARKS. One is fully registered and the other we pay constant fees to the lawyers to keep extending the period till we get it registered.

[RobDog888]

I had looked into all this about a year ago and thats how I remembered
about the details. Since you can FedEx overnight to the office it
would really be quite fast to start protecting your work with a
Copyright.

A Trademark, as I read it, was just the creator placing the ™
symbol next to their logo or product name? This would just mark
it but would need to be proved that you marked it before
someone else did unless you submitted it and paid the $30.

A Registered Trademark ® is the one that really protects you and
thats why it cost $$$.

[baja_yu]

and back to the main post, what does your software do? I mean what is its purpose and stuff like that? Is it an inovative application or like a clone of some other program?

[dglienna]

I have mailed a listing of my software to myself, and it is unopened, which serves as proof to the code's originality, should it ever come up. so far, it hasn't. this was good enough years ago, but it'd be better to register for only $30.00

[RobDog888]

If you really think it has good potential then I would say put it
up for sale on a website. If you dont have an domain name then
you should so you can support your software. Set up a website
and register with search engines for exposure. Not too much cost
involved, but will be worth it if it is good software. In other
words, you need to put your $$$ where your mouth is - No
offense ment.

HTH

[Wokawidget]

It would be a help if we knew what the software was...

Woof