THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700


S U M M A R Y


DIARY: August 27, 2000 03:24 PM Sunday; Rod Welch

License to download and use SDS, review by Morris.

1...Summary/Objective

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1...a. Website envoronment to accept payment, and deliver
2...b. Installation front end to SDS.

CONTACTS 
0201 - Intel Corporation                    408 765 8080
020101 - Mr. Morris E. Jones; Business Unit Manager =408 545 9521
020102 - morris.jones@intel.com
020103 - Cable Network Operation

SUBJECTS
License Agreement
License Ideas
KM Secret of SDS
Secret of SDS KM Killer App for Enterprise Management

0706 -    ..
0707 - Summary/Objective
0708 -
070801 - Follow up ref SDS 48 0000, ref SDS 47 0000.
070802 -
070803 - Jack Park submitted an open source license business proposal on
070804 - 000726. ref SDS 42 1222
070805 -
070806 - On 000803 he submitted an email link to a site which has software
070807 - license terms, ref OF 6 0001, he feels might be useful for us...
070808 -
070809 -        http://www.opencascade.com/getoc/license.html
070810 -
070811 - On 000802 began business plan for SDS project, based in part on
070812 - Jack's plan.
070813 -
070814 - The Welch view about open source is that SDS will be provided at a
070815 - nominal expense to help others develop KM, however, Welch retains an
070816 - interest in any subsequent capability developed.
070817 -
070818 - Over the past few weeks I have put SDS into a form that is easier for
070819 - others to use on the c: drive, as reported on 000824, ref SDS 53 0001,
070820 - particularly on 000808. ref SDS 49 0001
070821 - ..
070822 - Over the past 6 months, it has been established that Knowledge
070823 - Management is a secret of SDS, reported on 000425. ref SDS 22 0001
070824 -
070825 -     [On 000729 telecon with Jack Park on results of KM conference in
070826 -     Montreal showed nobody has discovered how to accomplish KM.
070827 -     ref SDS 55 BK8G
070828 -
070829 - In particular on...
070830 -
070831 -    1.  991217 conference at Peoplesoft showed that nobody understands
070832 -        Knowledge Management; everyone is looking for a technology to
070833 -        support KM. ref SDS 9 9030
070834 -
070835 -    2.  000324 SRI reported there are many projects around the world
070836 -        trying to create KM, and none have succeeded. ref SDS 13 4877
070837 -
070838 -    3.  000330 SRI reported Doug Engelbart's lifetime of work is the
070839 -        closest anyone else has come to understanding KM. ref SDS 15
070840 -        0713
070841 -
070842 -    4.  000420 more projects listed that have failed to produce KM.
070843 -        ref SDS 19 4877
070844 -
070845 -    5.  000504 Doug Engelbart disclosed he needs help to understand KM.
070846 -        ref SDS 25 5555
070847 -
070848 -    6.  000615 SRI's project team gave up trying to produce KM.
070849 -        ref SDS 31 6271
070850 -
070851 -    7.  000725 meeting with Pat Lincoln, SRI's chief computer
070852 -        scientist, identified SDS as the only KM capability.
070853 -        ref SDS 41 0050
070854 -
070855 -    8.  On 000812 Eric Armstrong cited problems to be overcome trying
070856 -        to create an SDS type program. ref SDS 50 0I6O and ref SDS 50
070857 -        UY9L
070858 -
070859 -    9.  000815 SRI shut down weekly meetings to created Knowledge
070860 -        Management. ref SDS 51 0001
070861 -
070862 -   10.  On 000824 Eric reported Doug Engelbart is proposing that SRI
070863 -        produce KM based on SDS design. ref SDS 52 PU5N
070864 -
070865 -   11.  On 000829 Pat Lincoln reported Doug has indicated SRI can
070866 -        produce an SDS capability in a year. ref SDS 54 1056
070867 -
070868 -
070869 - Legal objective is to formulate a license or contract where others can
070870 - use SDS for work and to develop complimentary tools, even competitive
070871 - tools, but Welch retains entitlement to annual royalty fee of 5% or so
070872 - of any revenue generated using SDS technology.  Welch further retains
070873 - 5% royalty on gross receipts in any other products created based on
070874 - SDS technology.
070875 -
070876 -     [On 000831 telecon with Dave Buoncristiani. ref SDS 56 0001
070877 -
070878 -  ..
070879 - We need....
070880 -
070881 -    a.  Website envoronment to accept payment, and deliver
070882 -        product by downloading.
070883 -
070884 -    b.  Installation front end to SDS.
070885 -
070886 -    c.  Sample business plan from L&C.
070887 -
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0710 -
0711 - 2011 called Morris
0712 -
071201 - He has the install program from Microsoft, but does not have time
071202 - this week to help create an install wizard for SDS.
071203 -
071204 - He feels a license or contract with people who primarily want to
071205 - create a competitive product is not a good idea.
071206 -
071207 - Morris suggests looking for early adopters among people who are not
071208 - primarily interested in creating a competitive product.
071209 -
071210 -     We discussed this at length.  Morris did not explain how the risk
071211 -     of 3rd party expropriation is any less for people who are not
071212 -     programmers seeing something helpful, and contacting programmers
071213 -     to develop a better mouse trap.
071214 -
071215 - John Deneen and Joe Williams are possible developers who might
071216 - contribute to SDS project.
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