On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 03:12:28PM -0700, Jo Walsh wrote: > See in particular http://tinyurl.com/oh38d , "to ask what plans OS has > for making public data available to the public". The written answer he > received is basically untrue; OS *does* receive a sizeable state > subsidy voted by Parliament through NIMSA. Otherwise, this is more > "our hands our tied by our political masters" material.
Well found Jo. How immensely frustrating. Is this 'basically' untrue, or 'actually' untrue? >From what we know, "does not receive any funds voted directly by Parliament" Sounds wrong, but I suspect it's true that the budget is not voted on in parliament, which sounds like a very unusual microbudgetary practice anyway. I know how precise the wording used by parliamentarians can be, and how infuriating a brush-off like this is.. Does anyone know what kinds of things *do* recieve 'funds voted directly by Parliament'. Difficult territory :/ X S. _______________________________________________ geo-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/geo-discuss
