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Message 75571 - Posted: 31 Jan 2017, 0:02:19 UTC - in response to Message 75567.  

Monetrising the credits system would be fraught with many problems, not the least of which are not all participants are US taxpayers, and not all projects are based in the USA.

A credit system that fitted every project, and gave a "level playing field" across both projects and hardware would be a great thing. The trouble is that some projects are "determined" to give very high credits for their work, with no regard to the hardware being used, while others "play by the rules" and attempt to grant credit in line with the "real" work done, and I doubt that you will ever convince either group to significantly change course (more's the pity - I would love to see the level playing field.)


Well the 501c part was just an afterthought really and I was assuming that it could be done on an international basis as with big charities that operate globally. I should have left it out of the post because it is not germane to the basic idea and confuses the issue.

The rest of the idea is not about monetization. It's about merely using the economics of the IT cloud services industry, or colocation industry, or the supercomputer industry, or whatever the applicable nomenclature is, as a template for a non-monetary credit system.

As for the likelihood of resistance from certain projects, I have no idea whether or not that can be overcome or how much leverage could be applied or by whom. I do know that if enough people express their desire to get something done, the likelihood of it happening increases.
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