These guys have a fair point:

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Subject: Re: [GeekUp] Free our data - review of Trading Funds Report
From: Simon Wheatley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Stuart Grimshaw wrote:
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/index.php

Lots of in depth analasys of the Trading Fund report into the costs of
making the vast swathes of data that the government collects using our
tax money free to be used by everyone else as well ...
One step forward, another one back [1].

S

[1] i.e. the bit where the Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform says “The underlying principle will be that
information collected for public purposes will be made available at a
price that balances the need for access while ensuring customers pay a
fair contribution to the cost of collecting this information.”

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