Hello Martin, Paul,

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Martin Hepp wrote:
> First of all, I think it is inappropriate to use these mailing lists for 
> blunt advertisement.

I don't have a problem with advertising as long as it's on topic but this is
the third advertisement from basekb in three months and I am getting annoyed
too.

> Second, I wonder what your revenue model is, because if you truly grant a 
> licensor a 
>     http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> license on your work, as stated on your homepage, then a single paying 
> customer could regularly download and share your data with the world for 
> free. Any university could do so on safe legal grounds. So your expected 
> monthly revenues will be $ 199 in total. 

I also wondered about the business model and I am tempted to convert the
freebase dumps to .nt or .nq and put them on S3 for free with the "requester
pays S3 fees" flag.

I don't know if enough people will pay for monthly updates but probably
much more people would pay for a reliable freebase SPARQL endpoint...

Regards,

Michael Brunnbauer

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