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Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Sep 6 10:13:01 CEST 2013
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:03:28AM +0900, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > i realize that your intent is not evil. Thanks :-) My main intent was to clarify the question. Several people expressed concerns about commercial use but I have to remind them that, _today_, it is perfectly allowed and if someone sells a service running over Atlas, he/she is today perfectly inline with Atlas' Terms of Use. That's why I think a discussion is useful. > when the 42nd commercial project raises the load/traffic so that > research is no longer viable and these dinky things are overloaded, > we'll get "but those 41 commercial products use it, not letting me > do so is unfair restraint of trade." On the Atlas mailing list, Michael Hook produced a nice sumamry of a possible solution: > As already said, commercial usage would also mean that you have to > earn credits in some way. > As far as I know, it's only possible to earn credits by > - hosting probes itself > - sponsoring new probes > - getting a LIR > In either of the first two cases, the atlas project will benefit > from it. The third one is a special case and isn't worth a > discussion.
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