Commercialize used in a sentence

Commercialize in a sentence as a verb

Did Sony really think that people were going to commercialize homebrew games that require hardware mods? Or did they know that GeoHot was onto something big?

Aereo is being sued by rightsholders, who argue that as the parties that fund the creation of content, it should be up to them how to commercialize it. Copyright isn't regulation.

Anyone is free to commercialize it without adding any value. The better marketing & sales team can and will beat the origin of the software in the market.

Private sector steps in to commercialize the projects that bear fruit. Hyperloop falls under category #1.

This is a future made possible by the Kickstarter model, which enabled Oculus to get the start they needed to commercialize Virtual Reality. Tell me again how that is stupid?

To me the real bad news is that I'm scared shitless to develop and commercialize anything now. No invention is truely innovative, not a single product on the market today is truely original.

If a writer does not publish their code, and it is actually any good, they can potentially commercialize it thanks to the Bayh-Dole Act. If a writer publishes their code and people intend to use it, the writer needs to clean it up, check it for correctness, and handle support requests. These activities are probably more time consuming than writing the code in the first place.

What exactly are the economic incentives to expend all the effort and expense on developing an industrial process if one is not allowed to commercialize the result?

They're in business because they provide value to the authors and artists they represent and that will continue being the case as long as authors and artists don't want to deal with the burden of the business side of their craft and figuring out how to commercialize it. Keep in mind that Amazon is also a "value-added middleman".

You seem to suggest that algorithms won't get published if their authors can't patent them and commercialize them. Given that the vast majority of algorithms don't get patented, and that the vast majority of patents never get licensed except in bulk cross-licensing deals, this seems almost entirely untrue.

They had big hopes and put a lot of R&D investment in it, but were unable to commercialize it as the sheets of metal produced did not have consistent ductility and were prone to cracking. So - the idea is not new, and the challenges of going from a concept to commercialization are serious, and were beyond the capabilities of one of the world's largest steel producers.

Also, in the histories of Unix that I've read, Bell/AT&T hardly wanted to contribute Unix to the 'public domain', they wanted to market/commercialize it, they just failed -- and never really realized the potential market value of what they had. There were also issues of AT&T being forbidden from entering some aspects of computer business by a 1950s antitrust consent decree.

He tried to for months to convince AC Propulsion to commercialize the electric vehicle and even asked them to make one for him, but they had no interest in doing so. Instead, Tom Gage, the president of AC Propulsion introduced Musk and Straubel to another team that shared the same interest so that they together they could increase their potential for success in commercializing an electric vehicle.

The main problem is that the government is totally confused as to its actual funding strategy -- you need significant, continuous supplies of capital to develop and commercialize hard technology -- every time it fluctuates you impose major stresses and delays. In at least a few cases, the problem was that the government provided support, and thereafter withdrew it.