Mike Linksvayer

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I saw that the text is now also at http://lucien.cc/?p=5939 so I read an autotranslation. Looks like a good summary of open government data stuff, glad to see Yu and Robinson prominent. I have one critique, which is my usual for this topic: FLOSS mentioned as a forerunner, but not as directly related or even necessary for realizing promise of open government data. Instead, something is said about Socrata and Microsoft positioning their proprietary software for open government data. Hmm, where can I find one of my mini-rants on this ... hmm, I thought I had something more direct, but http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/10/07/open-data-nuance/ for now. I think it is a huge mistake for "open data" (government or otherwise) to treat the software generating/hosting/querying/analyzing/verifying data as neutral, ie OK to be non-auditable and proprietary.


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