Paul, it is pretty obvious that NZLive competes with EventFinder. Just because it doesn't have an income and is "not a company" does not mean it has a mutually exclusive audience.
The issue is not whether the government can do it, or even whether New Zealand needs a cultural events calendar. The issue is that a considerably more cost effective, New Zealand made (a de-facto standard, perhaps) commercial option existed. Buy NZ-Made anyone? Perhaps the government should build, from scratch, an online auction website to facilitate the trade of goods between interested commercial parties.... On Apr 29, 11:12 am, Paul Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Keri, > > > I would be happy for the Government to give a grant to someone trying > > to do something along the lines of nzlive, but them doing it > > themselves is a different story. > > Why? It's not a profit-making venture. It's providing public NZ events info > to people. > This is classic kiwi knee-jerk government bashing. > > Let's shut down this one too >http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ > It advertises events and even charges money for entry for some of them! > > > How would you feel if the Government started a company that competed > > with you, was funded by your taxes and was loosing money at a great > > rate. > > NZLive is not a company, it's a *website*. One of *many *government websites > aimed at providing information and services. > On that note, all government services and departments "loos" (sic) money (or > rather use the budget alloted to them), because they are taxpayer funded and > hence have no commercial income. > > If NZLive sold tickets and profited, this argument would have more credence, > but I'm sorry, it just doesn't. > > Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
