On 14/01/2011 10:53, Tom Steinberg wrote:
The PDC means genuine change for the big trading funds that have the most valuable data, and which haven't seen any structural change despite the big Gordon Brown-era releases of postcodes, maps etc under Tim Berners-Lee et al.
What sort of things are you thinking of?
This change could be good, or bad - the only way I diasagree with Mark is that I don't think the changes could be neutral. This is because in my view the current situation is so crappy that 'no change' would definitely be bad.
Well, they could replace one set of crap with another set of crap :-)
I give up some of my time almost every week to fight this fight, and so do people like Michael Cross and Charles Arthur. But getting the PDC to be the thing hackers need it to be will take more than that - it'll take real grassroots pressure, and a pinch of luck.
That's true. I don't think that the proposed PDC is necessarily a bad thing at all. I think it has the potential to be a very good thing. But it will need the right nudges in the right places to steer it into the place where it can be a good thing.
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