On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:04:08PM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > At 2011-10-27 14:45:00+0000, Francis Irving writes: > > The world of open data could do with some similarly extreme people, to > > encourage the others. > > I think PMR can be similarly extreme, and is a considerable asset, > though others differ and this recent example has started some flamage > on other lists: > > <http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/10/24/open-access-saves-lives/>
PMR is Peter Murray Rust, I assume! Yes, he is slightly "mad scientist" and also lovely at the same time. Maybe we should big him up everywhere, like Stallman and Eric S Raymond were constantly mentioned round about the turn of the century. Francis _______________________________________________ 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
