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Submission + - How to form a company to sell my super program

Submitted by jbrohan on Saturday March 28, 2009 @08:18AM

jbrohan writes: It's finally happened. The program I've been developing and testing for years is ready to sell. There are some people interested to sell it too. The program has multiple target groups. For example Hospital ER's, Nursing Homes, Home Care etc, these services are organized differently in nearly every case, and belong to different types of sales organizations.
Now, I am a geek and quite unsuitable to hire people and run a company. Is there any way to make a kind of federation of companies and individuals who will cooperate and compete to sell this software and share the income? Some kind of Utopian organization where each will contribute what he does best and get just rewards for it?

Comment Re:Ethics is eithics (Score 1) 466

by jbrohan on Monday February 11, 2008 @08:10AM (#22377920) Attached to: Ethics In IT

The ethical issues in a domain where unethical behavior is unlikely to be discovered directly is a very interesting problem. In Quebec we had some bridges collapse because the work was poorly executed. We can pry into others business and write programs without bothering to test them, we should do these things better. Neville Shute in Round the Bend discusses this problem in the setting of the expanding airlines just after world war 2, expanding into the Far East. He describes a form or religion of aircraft engineers. The suggestion is that the solution to this ethical problem cannot be solved in the domain in which it is presented, cannot be solved as a business or technological problem, but at a deeper human, spiritual level.

Submission + - On-ground aircraft accidents and 'gate change'

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jbrohan

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @09:29AM

jbrohan writes: "Last night a fuel truck bumped into an engine of the plane I was booked on to London. It was one of the last flights to leave the airport, it was delayed 30 minutes arriving, it was raining and there was a gate change. Does anyone know how much each of these attributes affect the chances of an on-ground accident. I used to work with obstetrical data and it was informally observed that accidents were associated with three or so bad situations. For example a tired doctor, a snowstorm keeping the consultant away and a fragile mother. My informal impression was that the system could cope with two, but three would sometimes be too much. Air safety people have a good anonymous reporting system and these influences should be detectable."

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