paul perrin wrote: > I am primarily interested in the data being freely available for > personal, non-commercial use (let the commercial users pay for live > systems) is that what others are after? or are you looking for taxpayer > funding for all use? or what?
Why charge for commercial users? That means you'd have to have billing systems, licence enforcement etc. which just adds to the cost of running the service. Free for everyone is much simpler and cheaper to administrate, though if the RM still wanted to generate some revenue it could offer consultancy services for businesses which wanted help integrating PAF, using it for exotic services, pre-sorting mail etc. If the commercial users make lots of money out of the PAF being free, the government (which owns RM anyway) will recoup some of that in corporation tax, for which there is an existing system for collecting revenue. Paul -- Paul Waring http://www.pwaring.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
