Re: Reality Check and Ideas
Alan Cox (alan nospam at redhat.com)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:00:03 -0500 (EST)
> My interest in using a format like NNTP is to make the database distributed;
> without an 'offical' center. This is the key to preventing the CDDB/Escient
> situation from every arising again. Look at www.dejanews.com. They're
> profiting from usenet using banner ads. Don't like them? Use a real NNTP
> server and client.
Thats a matter of licensing the database correctly. One way might be to make
anyone who submits an entry acquire a license to the entire database so
after about a month it has 30,000 odd owners. Then you can publish the database
regularly (in fact you could DNSwalk it :))
Alan