[Gllug] Re: EU council streaming petition

[Martin A. Brooks]

Christopher Currie wrote:
> You appear to have missed the point. As a matter of principle and commom 
> sense, public data, produced for the record for public organisations, should 
> not be issued in closed or proprietary formats of any kind. The reasons 
> should not need spelling out.

It's in a format I can view with an open source, GPLd piece of 
software.  I can convert it to a format deemed more convenient if I 
like.  It's a non-issue, it slashdot-like whining about perceived 
rebukes to openness.  Get over it.


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