[HCoop-Discuss] useful reading

[Davor Ocelic]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 01:05:47AM -0700, Michael Potter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 01:22:59PM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> > I'll just repeat that this system is only intended to be used in the 
> > short term.  I expect that we'll switch back to equal shares for all 
> > once we have enough members that monthly expenses are under $5 when 
> > split evenly.
> 
> It wouldn't make sense to add unnecessary accounting to the billing
> process, but it seems unfair to me that members who use few resources
> will pay the same as those who use a lot. The message there seems to
> be I get more for my money if I take up more disk space and
> bandwidth. On the other hand, if everyone pays < $5, who gives a crap?

I always viewed this as our biggest strength. Putting prices on
everything will just ruin the whole logic... As long as we have enough
capacity to support everyone, we should not go into usage-based pricing
scheme.

And when we run out of available resources (or come close to it), we
will hopefully be big enough to do another round of expansion and 
keep things the same way.

-doc