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I recently stumbled across Statistic Canada's [http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/about-apropos-eng.htm Data Liberation Initiative]. It's | I recently stumbled across Statistic Canada's [http://www.statcan.gc.ca/dli-ild/about-apropos-eng.htm Data Liberation Initiative]. It's interesting to see this effort and terminology, which is shared with [http://www.dataliberation.org/ Google's humorously themed effort]. | ||
Another, commercial [http://www.dataliberators.com/ Data Liberation effort] provides some good reasons this is important — ''Do you want fair pricing, transparent testing, faster performance, deeper analytics and straight answers?'' We can add, do you want to be able to take away information you contributed or paid for? Simply, in my mind, public data and even rights to code you access (like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License AGPL]) should be a competitive factor, and in the public service or for anything of massive utility (like Facebook), something we expect. | Another, commercial [http://www.dataliberators.com/ Data Liberation effort] provides some good reasons this is important — ''Do you want fair pricing, transparent testing, faster performance, deeper analytics and straight answers?'' We can add, do you want to be able to take away information you contributed or paid for? Simply, in my mind, public data and even rights to code you access (like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License AGPL]) should be a competitive factor, and in the public service or for anything of massive utility (like Facebook), something we expect. | ||