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I don't think so.
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 04:40 AM EDT

The top reply wanted to look at it as if money wasnt a factor, so I asked for examples of where it wasnt a factor,...
Direct money or indirect money?
... namely a company, and companies are driven to make money, giving something away for free and expecting to loose everything invested in it with no hope of return.
Only if you consider direct cash income will it be considered no hope of return.

There are some things which are almost impossible to quantify in terms of money, for example Goodwill. Apple has lost a lot of goodwill recently, but how exactly that is quantified is very difficult, except through lost sales,

Redhat gives away Linux with no hope of return on that investment in improving it. They also have a service department that specialises in providing a help desk which sells contracts to look after computer systems running Linux (so directly they expect to loose (sic - why they want it all floppy I don't know, but that's what you said; I personally would expect them to lose) everything they invest in tweaking Linux; but indirectly they possibly gain - recipients do not have to buy a service contract).

There are anti-virus programs for Windwos that are given away free with no hope of return on the investment of writing them and updating them (McFee?) - there is no requirement to register or pay.

They seem fairly good examples of for profit organisations giving away hard work for nowt expecting to loose (sic) everything.

cm.

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You're not just turning it on it's head - you're moving it to an extreme
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 09:26 AM EDT

As you point out from the top post:

if the potential financial windfall for patent licenses are not as good
The key words are bolded. "Not as good" does not mean "losing everything".
The top reply wanted to look at it as if money wasnt a factor,
Sorry - that's your perspective. How you go from "not as good" to "none" is the dispute you are fabricating.

And it's a dispute because you created the extreme then demanded someone else provide evidence to support the extreme.

It would have been far better had you simply identified your position that the extreme is unsupported, for example:

    Profits of some form need to be made from some angle in order to continue innovating - even the garage inventor needs a certain amount of additional funds above living expenses in order to be able to put the time into innovating!
And not required of others evidence to support the extreme you created:
Please provide links to a for profit company that gave away patented technology to a standards body with the hopes of loosing all they invested in it.
You want the extreme proven? Then it falls upon you - who raised the extreme as a dispute - to prove it.

RAS

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