> In fact that is why I chose to use the term franchisee earlier - so far > I've described only the first layer in all of this. A full working model > would be a tree structure not unlike the Amway model. Only without the > huckstering.
> Associate it with a business model that creates revenue for the nodes and > the mother ship and you are on your way. I've actually done this once (taken a distributed project commercial) quite successfully, so I have a pretty good idea of what is involved; and I also have a very clear understanding from the customer side of why you would want a paid-for commercial AV service and why you would pay more to someone like NAI when it would appear on the surface that you get better, faster, and cheaper service free from this project. Having said that, I do not believe that what you are suggesting is good for this project. The air of commercial respectability that would enable clamav to penetrate the market currently held by commercial AV companies would *not* be created by implementing this distributed franchise idea; in fact to the average businessman it would look more chaotic than it does already. And from the clamav project side, to implement what is really needed to make it commercial-grade quality with guarantees of service, is a major undertaking that the principals may not want to get involved with, especially if they are dedicated to providing an alternative to commercial services. My recommendation is to keep it free, and rely on distributed systems and finding sufficient volunteers to handle the bandwidth issues, and perhaps modifying the technology so that in the style of BitTorrent, you get good performance out of it only if you are willing to contribute bandwidth yourself. This can all be done by code, with the central clearing house no longer the main source of data for everyone but only the seed for the network and the orchestrator and arbiter of fair performance - sending control packets around in real time is far less overhead than sending databases... Graham ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
