The other big part is legal data.

Why should court reports, statutes not be in the public sector?

If that data is secret or effectively secret because only the
extremely wealthy can buy it, its wrong.

On 14 January 2011 11:22, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What kinds data would a cynic say the government is planning to sell,
>> to whom, and where do trading funds come into it?
>
> Well, you name it. Anything that the government produces that people
> might be willing to pay for!
>
> Trading funds come into it because they produce all the lovely
> locked-up data that most of us want the most - maps, postcodes,
> companies information, property, weather, etc.
>
> Tom
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