On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:28:46PM +0000, William Waites wrote: > Hi Laura, > > That is a pretty bizarre position to take and seems to show a > surprising lack of understanding of the environment in which OKF > operates. For example, suppose a journalist or civil servant wants to > use some Open Data in order to draw attention to some problem in > government. Do you think it is appropriate for the same government > to be spying on them while they do this and if they are a civil servant > perhaps dismiss them on a pretext before they can finish and publish > their research? Do you think when the public sector publishes > information that it is appropriate to keep tabs on who is using that > information and for what? > > "Does not quite fit within [OKF's] remit" is alarmingly out of step > with the rest of the 'net. Have a look at the list of which other > organisations supporting this and ask yourself if it appears to be > within you understand as their remit. > > Please reconsider :)
thank you for your efforts to keep up the hope! however lost it might be. s -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
