Half-Baked Software was an independent corporation set up in 1999 with support of the University of Victoria and the UVic Innovation and Development Corporation. The shareholders were Stewart Arneil, Martin Holmes, and the University. Stewart and Martin also worked at the Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC, formerly the Language Centre).
The company was set up in order to handle the commercial aspects of the software (such as Hot Potatoes and Quandary) that the HCMC produced at the time, and potentially to market other software produced within the Humanities at the University. Some profits from the company were fed back into the University and the HCMC to help with ongoing software development. We were also able to make a few extra bucks ourselves, doing contract programming work through the company.
Our philosophy was close to that of the nanocorp; our intention was to make money doing what we like doing, and to feed some that money back into our workplace (thus enriching our lives, since we spent much of our time there).
Half-Baked Software was dissolved in 2022.