Re: Subscription to NASD CD-ROM (was: embedded ...)

[Bob_Deep <bobd@cssgroup.com>]

"John C. Peterson" wrote:
> 
> >
> > I figure if that is the case we should move to a CO-OP type
> > arrangement. collect the money, and send those people copies.
> > I guess if one of them wants to post for everyone so be it.
> >
> 
> Here's two suggestions, you be the judge;
> 
>   1) Make the data public, but hold it "hostage" by not even ordering
> it until enough people commit to supporting it with a $20 contribution,
> (or whatever minimum is deemed reasonable).
> 
>   2) Limit the data to contributors. We would need to have Jim setup
> an ftp "download" account which requires a password to login. You could
> then e-mail the password to contributors after you receive their money.
> 

How about letting expired data live somewhere so it can be had for free?

Seems this would encourage application development by allowing
developers access to the data for testing.

It also would allow some of the open source flight simulators access to
reasonable data to use..  In fact, have we asked anybody from those
groups if they would be interested in the data and would help pay for
it?

Another thing we may do is give up small sections, Say by sectional, of
data that's current for free, just require the collection of E-mail
addresses from all requesters.  Only send one sections worth of data to
each valid E-mail address, unless they subscribe for a nominal fee.

We need to be VERY careful that we don't end up in a liability problem
with this... So we had better put the "Not intended for actual
navigation" disclaimers all over anything we give away...

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