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======  Introduction ======

Here are some of the companies, projects, and individuals who have expressed an interest in participating in this project:

  *  USPTO
  *  Eclipse Foundation
  *  IBM
  *  Novell
  *  OSDL
  *  RedHat
  *  OSTG (Sourceforge.net)
  *  Mozilla (offered grant funding, if needed)

OSDL currently hosts this Web-Site.

I don't know if any of those companies will help with money or not, but here I have an suggestion on how we might earn some money (for this project only, not for yourself though .. ).
=====  Concept =====

The whole concept is based upon finding Prior Art.

The [[:osapa:request_for_prior_art_mailinglist| Request for Prior Art Mailinglist ]] could be enhanced with some kind of bounty for those that respond. For example if you want help finding Prior Art on a specific patent, you may say that you pay for each software-category-assoziation 10 US$, and for each concrete Project that was launched prior to the Priority Date 50 US$. You may also choose any other value, just depends on how much you want to motivate the list-members.

All payments could be done via PayPal, and would be coordinated centralised from our server. (Requestee -> OSSasPA -> Prior Art searchers)

For maintaining this, OSSasPA will keep 5-10% of all bountys.

.. just a suggestion ;-)

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