Did you consider having academics cite your software as an academic work, and then monetizing those citations to get grants from funding agencies who were funding the research that used your software?
Given this knowledge, can you think of other similar experiments worth performing? Alternatively, are there any likely changes that might lead to such approaches becoming more feasible?
I’m quite interested in this question and appreciate your comments. In case you’ve already answered these in the article, I apologize — the article is long and the HN thread will likely expire before I have the chance to peruse it thoroughly.
I tried talking with funding agencies. As a self-employed/sole-proprietership, it proved to be difficult.
I conducted the "mmpdb crowdfunding project" at http://mmpdb.dalkescientific.com/ . Unfortunately, it's been on delay because of major changes to my work schedule once the coronovirus came. My conclusion from that was it's still easier for me to make money as a consultant than from selling a product.
One thing I didn't mention in the paper was that being a consultant on different projects makes it easy to present new talks at conferences, which leads to new work. Continued development of a single project with one focus leads to variations on a theme, feeling sometimes like "have you ever looked at your hand. I mean, really looked at your hand" introspection.
You can always email me as follow up. dalke at dalkescientific.
Did you consider having academics cite your software as an academic work, and then monetizing those citations to get grants from funding agencies who were funding the research that used your software?
Given this knowledge, can you think of other similar experiments worth performing? Alternatively, are there any likely changes that might lead to such approaches becoming more feasible?
I’m quite interested in this question and appreciate your comments. In case you’ve already answered these in the article, I apologize — the article is long and the HN thread will likely expire before I have the chance to peruse it thoroughly.