I am asking Sebastian about the rationale for paid service.


On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:47 PM Laura Morales <lauretas@mail.com> wrote:
Is this a question for Sebastian, or are you talking on behalf of the project?

 
 

Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 at 5:10 PM
From: "Thad Guidry" <thadguidry@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project" <wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Laura Morales" <lauretas@mail.com>
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] DBpedia Databus (alpha version)

So basically...

where you get "compute" heavy (querying SPARQL)... you are going to charge fees for providing that compute heavy query service.
 where you are not "compute" heavy (providing download bandwidth to get files) ... you are not going to charge fees.
 -Thad