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Re: embedded Forth

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stephen@mpeforth.com writes:
> Sweat equity means that you will make a profit later. You have already
> chosen your side of the time/money pair. How are you going to pay the
> patent lawyer? Any commercial software tool costs are peanuts compared 
> to the lawyers' fees. 

The patent lawyer only gets paid if the project produces a promising
results that look worth investing money in.  That's much later than the
beginning of development.  Commercial software tools require spending
the money BEFORE finding out whether the idea is worthwhile.

Free software and cheap hardware (think of Launchpad/RPi/Arduino-priced
boards knocking out the $200 development boards from earlier) are
attractive partly because you can get an idea and start hacking without
any significant financial or personal commitment.  You then make some
progress or perhaps fail to make any, and THEN decide whether the
project looks worth pursuing.

If your idea works, you can then quit your day job, start spending money
on licenses and lawyers, seek outside funding, etc.  If not, you haven't
lost anything except a little bit of hacking time that you can think of
as hobby activity.  Expensive tools flip the process around too much.

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embedded forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-21 11:27 -0800
  Re: embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-21 11:31 -0800
  Re: embedded forth stephen@mpeforth.com - 2017-01-22 00:52 -0800
  Re: embedded forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-22 17:09 +0000
    Re: embedded Forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 09:43 -0800
      Re: embedded Forth stephen@mpeforth.com - 2017-01-22 12:19 -0800
      Re: embedded Forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-22 21:25 +0100
      Re: embedded Forth john <anon@example.com> - 2017-01-22 21:04 +0000
        Re: embedded Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-22 12:30 -1000
        Re: embedded Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-22 20:45 -0800
      Re: embedded Forth stephen@mpeforth.com - 2017-01-22 14:08 -0800
        Re: embedded Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-22 14:55 -0800
          Re: embedded Forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 20:41 -0800
            Re: embedded Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-22 21:19 -0800
      Re: embedded Forth hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-01-22 21:36 -0800
        Re: embedded Forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 22:09 -0800
          Re: embedded Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 04:15 -0500
            Re: embedded Forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 08:41 -0800
              Re: embedded Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 14:32 -0500
                Re: embedded Forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 11:53 -0800
                Re: embedded Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 15:10 -0500
              Re: embedded Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-23 14:34 -0800
                Re: embedded Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-01-24 03:14 -0600
        Re: embedded Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 03:43 -0500
          Re: embedded Forth john <anon@example.com> - 2017-01-23 10:32 +0000
          keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) "Wolfgang Allinger" <all2001@spambog.com> - 2017-01-23 08:58 -0300
            Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-01-23 07:47 -0500
              Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) "Wolfgang Allinger" <all2001@spambog.com> - 2017-01-23 18:18 -0300
                Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 19:15 -0500
            Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 14:38 -0500
              Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) "Wolfgang Allinger" <all2001@spambog.com> - 2017-01-23 18:43 -0300
                Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 19:48 -0500
                Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-01-23 16:30 -1000
                Re: keep secrets (was Re: embedded Forth) rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 22:23 -0500
  Re: embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 13:44 -0500
    Re: embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-22 13:38 -0800
      Re: embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 00:45 -0500
        Re: embedded forth Dale Scott <dalescottnet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-22 22:44 -0800
          Re: embedded forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-01-23 00:48 -0800
          Re: embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 03:51 -0500
      Re: embedded forth john <anon@example.com> - 2017-01-23 10:02 +0000
    Re: embedded forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-01-23 09:01 +0000
      Re: embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-23 13:05 +0100
        Re: embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-23 14:40 -0500
          Re: embedded forth Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-01-24 01:12 -0800
          Re: embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-24 14:38 +0100
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              Re: embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-25 11:34 +0100
                Re: embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-25 22:13 -0500
                Re: embedded forth albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-01-26 11:36 +0100
                Re: embedded forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-01-26 14:07 -0500
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