On 26/11/2007, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have complete freedom - you can go and use someone else's API if their > terms or tech are better. Just change the URL and a few XPaths in a config > file.
To talk of the freedom to stop using a data source is absurd. The Ordanance Survey provide very useful data with horribly onerous licencing conditions, are you arguing that all the campaigning to get that data opened up to the public is moot simple because you can choose not to use it? -- Noah Slater <http://www.bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
