On 14/01/2011 12:38, Stefan Magdalinski wrote:
This was in the first meeting we had to try and normalise the
licensing arrangements for Upmystreet, which was publishing
government data illegally but popularly. We suggested that we
wouldn't pay for the data, because it belonged to the British public
anyway. The eventual end result was the Click-use License, but the
initial response was to laugh us out of Whitehall and kick the
hippies down the street.
Sounds like a win, to me.
This was also the time when Local Authorities were mandated to sell
the Electoral Roll to direct-marketing companies ('Cost Recovery'),
so your right to vote was contingent on being spammed.
They don't do that any more, either.
I'm not being party political here, just the ranting of an old man,
filled with regret, waiting to die alone.
Regret for what - being right?
Mark
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http://mark.goodge.co.uk
http://www.ratemysupermarket.com
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