On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
Can I use Atlas as a basis for commercial services?
I see no reason why not. As long as the use patterns on my probes do not change, I lose nothing, and you are welcome to make money.
Exactly my point. Unless the probes don't consume significantly more resources it's there to help connectivity. If someone wants to provide a service then s/he must constantly generate credits which results more probes to be available for me. It causes me no harm if someone earns money while providing me resources. However as others mentioned it strongly requires a well balanced credit system to prevent large volume users (be they commercial or not) to consume too much resource, and to prevent small individual probe owners from starving by not being able to provide enough credits to be able to make their own measurements. Basically that's the same as open source / open content economy: commercial insterests have to provide resources to the others in exchange of their (smaller) resources. (Probably there should be some requirement to assure topologically well distributed probes from mass users.) g