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Frankly the dancing around the term "server" stinks. It can be resolved quite easily by stipulating that one cannot operate a commercial business out of a home
by ihsw 13y ago
Frankly the dancing around the term "server" stinks. It can be resolved quite easily by stipulating that one cannot operate a commercial business out of a home internet connection.
- bennyg 13y agoLike selling things on eBay? Or are we talking about something a little more fine-tuned: Using the listening ports of a computer on the network to facilitate the selling of goods/services for commercial reasons. Is a business license the limiting factor? We need clearer terms before any argument has merit here.
- ihsw 13y ago> Using the listening ports of a computer on the network to facilitate the selling of goods/services for commercial reasons. Sounds about right. We can take it a step further and explicitly state that a customer is prohibited from living on the avails of their residential internet connection, rather than simply "facilitating the selling of goods/services for commercial reasons." Too many things can be considered "facilitating."
- bennyg 13y agoEbay counterexample still accounts for the "living on the avails" line.