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How would you value the product of a startup, or some open source software that doesn't make any money but the creator wants to use a copyleft license for? Also
by nsgi 5y ago
How would you value the product of a startup, or some open source software that doesn't make any money but the creator wants to use a copyleft license for? Also, how would this work internationally? Would you have to pay a proportion of the value to the US government even if the US is a small market for you?
- izacus 5y agoWhat kind of "startup product" is 15 or 20 years old and has been unchanged since then? That would be older than Google for example.
- bhelkey 5y ago> That would be older than Google for example. Google was incorporated in 1998 [1]. To be fair, the patent for PageRank has since expired [2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150623193037/https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150623193037/https://www.googl... [2] https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999 https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999
- tlbsofware 5y agoMy guess would be that after the initial period of no taxes if the company wasn’t able to turn a profit on the patent then they would have to either sell the patent to avoid taxes or list it as a value that they would manage to be able to pay taxes and start raising money, might help with patent/copyright squatting