[atlas] Using Atlas for commercial services

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Peter Gervai <grinapo+ripeatlas at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

And while Stephane makes money, the system is being strengthened, to my
advantage.  I assume the new commercial offering will need, and hence
place, probes in Africa as well, which I will use, for free!



> 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.
>

The number of credits I get is not affected by what Stephane uses, right?
And Stephane had better create as many credits as are required by
customers.  So it in the commercial entities self-interest to go sponsor
more probes, and keep them online.



> 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.)
>

The first service to use Atlas probably will not be well balanced, but the
next few can.  After all, there is nothing to stop me stealing^Wbeing
inspired by the current proposal, and implementing it for Asia.

Adam Smith was right, the baker and the butcher feed me by being selfish.

-- 
Sanjeev Gupta
+65 98551208     http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane
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