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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by pc86 on Monday August 03, 2015 @03:49PM (#9999277)
If he does the computations and simply gives the results as a donation is that transferring?
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Re:Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting com... by nadams on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:30PM (#9999982)
I would argue no - what would be the difference between him spinning up VMs and handing off the credentials and hosting a public web service on it? The VMs are still his responsibility - he is just allowing other people to use them.
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