Currently, IBM, Sierra Wireless, Eurotech and Axeda have come together under the umbrella of the Eclipse Foundation to work on specs and implementations, but Skerrett told me he hopes that more companies will join them over time.
"For the 18 months we've been preparing to bring this in we've been working through the specs, working on any glitches that they see, and making sure we're designing the system with their input.
Yet rewards can be found therein: even seasoned entrepreneurs, creators and businesspeople often work "on spec" for periods of time, in order to start a project or a business.
Given a recent comment posted by a employee freelancer for TimeOut on the Mobile Geeks of London Facebook group looking for an iPhone developer to work "on spec" to help pitch the idea of a mobile phone application to an editor "too busy to hunt for developers or business plans", it seems the kids Spoonfed are on the right track.
Never mind that I'm homeless, own no car, work on spec with no health care (sorry, Obamacare's too expensive, but I make too much for Medicaid) and no retirement.
Try not to screw the starving musicians in your band, but if you can get a deal on unused studio space or a producer to work on spec, do it.
He generally worked on spec and alone, or as Mr. Szarkowski noted, "like a Fuller Brush man".
Working on spec, in 1974, he combined mother-of-pearl, onyx and white diamonds for Liberace, making a ring-size replica of his famous piano.
Twisted Dixie grosses a little more than $50,000 a year, sometimes charging fees for long investigations and sometimes working on spec at famous sites like Fort Sumter and the Burt-Stark Mansion in Abbeville, S.C. — often called the birthplace and the deathbed of the Confederacy, and the home of Twisted Dixie.
Like many people writing for the theater Ms. Schulman, Mr. Korie and Mr. Davis have been working on spec, meaning that their eight or so years of labor on "Shimmer" — squeezed among paying projects, commissions and teaching jobs — may end up being uncompensated if the musical is never picked up by a producer.
