None of what you say involves Al Gore sitting down and thinking "Hey!, why don't we develop inter-machine communications so people can communicate over a network." That's the key component with regard to the internet and that was the work of others, such as Mr. Andreesen.

I like your poetic answer. Yeah, I agree with your comments. I wrote my question hoping to obtain wise answers that would help me develop real insight. Which is exactly what I've been getting and trying to do. Now I have to be sufficiently wise enough to understand what has been said and to make a few business decisions. One conclusion: I'm not open to being bought out my America's biggest companies. But I might go for selling out to a slightly smaller firm. Less money, I know. That would be okay. I have two products, each is completely unique, with no competition at present. Only one is camera ready complete, which is all I need.

I've spent the last ten years, a little longer actually, researching two topics. These are subjects in Computer Science. Now I have a product. It's not productized in the way the programs on my Android are, but the program is on two laptops I never put on the 'net. I live in the US and here patents, most especially technology patents just aren't respected. I consulted for twenty years, I have a wife who needs me and since I'm old now, I'd rather not run around consulting. I'm going to try to execute simultaneous product delivery based on a selling time frame of three to six months. People will want what I have, I'm not good at marketing, but I've got to make a move. thank you folks for your contributions, I asked, wondering and wanted to see exactly what answers I got. Thank you!

First, I'm not a marketing genius. Most of us programming types are, well, marketing isn't our strength. That said I have a pretty good idea the way to sell my program is to execute sales simultaneously. It's either that or sell to the big boys. I'd like to think about my answer; Thank's to the people who've commented, you've given me things to think about.

I'm new here, I don't want to be banned, so I am left unable to say what I feel as I consider your remark... However I note that even your screen name contains the word "consult." In sum, my programs will be free when I can go to the store and don't have to pay.

I'm a programmer, that's pretty much all I've ever done. I live in America, a country with great national parks, wonderful bookstores and libraries, well organized sports teams, and hey!, this is where the internet was invented (even if it wasn't invented by a foolish man from Tennessee.) But ah, how does one sell software these days? Years ago, ah, early '90s I think, I tried to do business with MS, they made the right noises for a while but, no, turns out they were just kicking the tires. And really, I'm just not a Microsoft kind of guy. (My tastes are much closer to UNIX and Linux.) So my question, how does one sell software these days? I've been doing research for a lab for the past 15-20 years or so, and the group is getting back into financial apps and I just don't want to do that anymore. I have some programs that do some pretty unusual things. But I have no idea how to sell my goods. My email address is: repeatable_compression@yahoo.com