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What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

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801 points tnorthcutt | 1 comments | 03 Apr 14 16:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mcherm ◴[03 Apr 14 18:26 UTC] No.7524928[source]▶
Instead of a critique of how Tarsnap is run, this sounds like a business proposal for a company that would offer B2B services using Tarsnap as a back-end.

They could do things like offering a flat $100 rate for what is probably $2.60 of services and then roll around in the money. Or donate some of it to Tarsnap so it will keep running.

Hmm... in many ways, it's actually not a bad idea. Especially if you partnered with Tarsnap so you could effectively do referrals to each other: send the geeks to bare-bones Tarsnap and they'd send the PHBs to you.

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smw ◴[03 Apr 14 18:52 UTC] No.7525127[source]▶
I see Patrick's point being that Colin did the hard technical work to create the service, he should probably take the huge profits for himself.

But sure, it does sound like there's room for what you describe -- even more so if Colin doesn't jump on it.

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1. twic ◴[03 Apr 14 19:30 UTC] No.7525563[source]▶
So set the business up, make LONG_MAX dollars, then offer to hand it over to Colin lock, stock, and barrel if he will admit that it was a good idea all along.

If Colin does not accept, start giving the profits to the OpenBSD foundation.