These guys have a fair point: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [GeekUp] Free our data - review of Trading Funds Report From: Simon Wheatley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.” -- www.blog.tdobson.net ---- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw - 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]/

