From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Giove A has become "official" now. Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:46:21 +0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Poul-Henning, > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson wri > tes: > > >I have heard that the proposed fee was 1 EUR, but I don't know the current > >idea about it. > > The 1EUR per receiver fee is not decided and if it was, it would be > pointless, because there is no way to enforce and it would never > amount to enough money to matter anyway. I agree it would be rather pointless, but at least for some manufactures it would/could be a limiting factor and unnecessary hazzle. The best thing would be for them to forget about the whole license thing and remove that from their specs. > >If there is a license fee, then it will be a "gold" system only, > > Actually, I think the "value add" of the subscription service is > another signal one second later saying "the data for last second > was received correct at our monitoring station, so you can rely > on it". Now, there is a value added service indeed. But that is beyond that of the open service. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
