[lug] Juno's new "service"

Scott A. Herod herod at interact-tv.com
Wed Feb 28 13:48:50 MST 2001


"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> It sounds like TOS is making a bargain that requires payment from the
> user, despite the payment not being cash (they have agreed to provide a
> benfit if the user pays by providing service of some sort). Juno had
> better hope the IRS doesn't decide to audit them, and their contract
> doesn't get tested in court. It could be painful.
> 


I wonder if you can put a concrete value on computer cycles and disk
space.  Surely so.  It makes me remember the "bananas" accounting that
Ga. Tech did for mainframe time back in about 1980.



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