On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:54:28 +0100
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 17/09/2014 11:26, d wrote:
So TfL owns the right to the MiFare system, smart card readers and
contactless
bank cards does it? Umm , no. So what is left - the gates and the backend
software? They're probably little use other than the overall design to any
other
metro system. TfL pretending its going to license this is like McDonalds
saying
their going to license burger flipping.
The systems and solutions for daily/weekly capping, fraud detection and
amelioration, reconciliation of data related to gripping, dealing with
comms loss, data reporting and mining etc etc.
This isn't exactly cutting edge tech. While any system can be complex in
its details and implementation they are usually specific to the organisation
and arn't really transferable. Also the fundemantal principals - which might
be worth something - are rarely new.
Taking your McDonalds analogy, it's more like them licensing their
logistics, stock tracking and market development data - something that
I'm sure their competitors would be very interested in licensing at the
right price.
All their competitors would already have their own systems up and running
else they wouldn't still be in business.
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Spud