On 24/10/11 19:50, Donovan Hide wrote: > > Blog postings and mailing lists don't change laws,
Organizing to submit to calls for submissions, and meeting with relevant parties to discuss with them, won't happen without the kind of communication that blog posts and mailing lists are indicators of. > The current government's objectives centre > around growth and private sector jobs. Then displacing that with a revenue-chasing public corporation is an even worse fit. > I assume everyone on this list enjoys being paid for their work So they will of course be clamoring for money that could be used to pay them to be send to the PDC instead. And Tokyo Cabinet is Free Software licenced under the LGPL. Which allows """commercial""" use. If it was under the kind of proprietary licence a revenue-chasing PDC would have to use, gratis alternatives would suddenly become more appealing. That's fine in a free market for software, but the ramifications are quite different in a closed market for state data. - Rob. _______________________________________________ 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
