I think I know how Dr Gho is playing it...

[yeahyeahyeah]

It is starting to make sense.

He is apparently opening up a clinic in jakarta.

See here:

http://www.baldtruthtalk.com/showthr...newpost&t=9010

So IF his technology works, rather then sharing it with all the HT Drs free of charge, it probably makes more sense for him to monopolize the market.

He knows that if surgeons such as Rahal, hasson and wong etc who are superior then him adopt his tech free of charge, chances are he will lose a lot of potential clients to them. So in order to get around this and cope with more people wanting his HST, all he needs to do is open up a new clinic as a new cash stream. Which is what he is currently doing.

The problem the other surgeons will eventually have, many people may opt for Ghos technique over theres, it is already happening, so they will either be forced to adopt his technology or lose revenue.

Pretty genius.

[gmonasco]

Originally Posted by yeahyeahyeah

So IF his technology works, rather then sharing it with all the HT Drs free of charge, it probably makes more sense for him to monopolize the market.

If profit were his primary motive, it would probably be more efficient for him to license the technology to anyone who wanted to use it rather than try to monopolize the entire market himself. He can't possibly perform or oversee enough procedures to satisfy more than a small fraction of the demand, but he could collect licensing fees from a whole lot of other practitioners.

Plus, if a new (non-exclusive) treatment came along that leapfrogged his, he'd be stuck with a bunch of clinics offering an outdated technology.

[yeahyeahyeah]

Originally Posted by gmonasco

If profit were his primary motive, it would probably be more efficient for him to license the technology to anyone who wanted to use it rather than try to monopolize the entire market himself. He can't possibly perform or oversee enough procedures to satisfy more than a small fraction of the demand, but he could collect licensing fees from a whole lot of other practitioners.

Plus, if a new (non-exclusive) treatment came along that leapfrogged his, he'd be stuck with a bunch of clinics offering an outdated technology.

I believe he already offers some sort of licensing fee, 50k. The problem is, people are slow to adopt the technology.

I believe he trains people up at these new clinics.

[gmonasco]

Originally Posted by yeahyeahyeah

The problem is, people are slow to adopt the technology.

Then he doesn't really need to worry about losing potential clients for his technique to other doctors, does he?

[yeahyeahyeah]

Originally Posted by gmonasco

Then he doesn't really need to worry about losing potential clients for his technique to other doctors, does he?

Yes, but the point is, Gho could have open sourced his technology and shared it with the rest of the HT community. Like Dr Woods did.

He hasn't, he cares about maximizing his return.

[aim4hair]

Originally Posted by yeahyeahyeah

Yes, but the point is, Gho could have open sourced his technology and shared it with the rest of the HT community. Like Dr Woods did.

He hasn't, he cares about maximizing his return.

Dr. Woods didn't do that..

[gmonasco]

Originally Posted by yeahyeahyeah

Yes, but the point is, Gho could have open sourced his technology and shared it with the rest of the HT community. He hasn't, he cares about maximizing his return.

You keep offering contradictory arguments.

If Gho's technique isn't being offered by anyone else because other doctors are just too resistant to adopting new technologies, then it doesn't make any difference whether his technique is open source or not -- he's not going to be losing business to competitors either way.

If Gho's technique isn't being offered by anyone else because it's not open source, he'd still do better at maximizing his return by lowering his teaching cost and setting up an ongoing licensing fee structure to encourage its spread than by trying to monopolize the market on his own.