<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>As already said, commercial usage would also mean that you have to earn credits in some way.<br><br></div></div>As far as I know, it's only possible to earn credits by<br>
</div>- hosting probes itself<br></div>- sponsoring new probes<br></div>- getting a LIR<br><br></div>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.<br><br></div>So I think we should allow commercial usage of the
Atlas project, if commercial usage still means to support the Atlas project
itself because of the need for credits!<br>Would be a win-win situation.<br><br></div>Michael<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/9/5 Daniel Karrenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net" target="_blank">daniel.karrenberg@ripe.net</a>></span><br>
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On 05.09.2013, at 11:42 , Stephane Bortzmeyer <<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr">bortzmeyer@nic.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:22:50PM +0800,<br>
> Sanjeev Gupta <<a href="mailto:ghane0@gmail.com">ghane0@gmail.com</a>> wrote<br>
> a message of 107 lines which said:<br>
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>> Adam Smith was right, the baker and the butcher feed me by being selfish.<br>
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> So, apparently, there is no consensus among the Atlas community. An<br>
> interesting discussion to have in Athens?<br>
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</div></div>It is a discussion we should have in the mat-wg. The working groups work on the mailing lists; physical meetings are just focal points for the work.<br>
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