2011/10/24 John Handelaar <[email protected]>: > > All these months and I still haven't seen so much as *one* > black-and-white explanation from anyone telling me why the PDC is a > bad idea. Only that it JUST IS, OK? > > There's nothing to answer this question on the one page ORG has about > it (an Eventbrite invitation for a meeting). Under 'Take Action' > there's nothing about it whatsoever. Nobody in this list who writes > any of the many relevant blogs I follow, when they've mentioned the > consultation, has spelled it out. > > This is how you *lose* a campaign. > > Whatever the campaign is. > > I still don't know. Sorry. >
Sorry. Not my campaign and I don't really know how to campaign anyway. I think Ernest Marples makes it fairly clear: http://pdcconsult.ernestmarples.com/ In short: the consultation looks very strongly geared to a model of the PDC where all the data we want remains behind paywalls, but that some chewed up offering is made available via the PDC. Think: Companies House webcheck. I am told there are strong indications that this is what those internal to the proposed PDC want: essentially to commercialise raw data and not make it available generally. On a mySociety list I shouldn't have to explain why raw data behind a paywall is a bad thing. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
