Comments on: Royal Mail threat likely to close ernestmarples.org http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/10/royal-mail-threat-likely-to-close-ernestmarples-org/ A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to non-personal data about the UK and its citizens Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:12:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Charles Arthur http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/10/royal-mail-threat-likely-to-close-ernestmarples-org/comment-page-1/#comment-126226 Charles Arthur Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:23:22 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=509#comment-126226 @Richard - you're right, I think: it doesn't make sense for "non-profit" or charitable organisations to get the licences for free while "commercial" organisations pay. The only difference tends to be whether one has shareholders. (Would The Guardian, owned by a company owned by a trust, qualify as a "non-profit" organisation?) The analysis we have done demonstrates that making the data free to *everyone* brings wider economic benefits than the narrow ones of boosting one small part of a government-owned organisation. @Richard – you’re right, I think: it doesn’t make sense for “non-profit” or charitable organisations to get the licences for free while “commercial” organisations pay. The only difference tends to be whether one has shareholders. (Would The Guardian, owned by a company owned by a trust, qualify as a “non-profit” organisation?)

The analysis we have done demonstrates that making the data free to *everyone* brings wider economic benefits than the narrow ones of boosting one small part of a government-owned organisation.

]]> By: Richard http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/10/royal-mail-threat-likely-to-close-ernestmarples-org/comment-page-1/#comment-126217 Richard Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:02:06 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=509#comment-126217 If the comment from 'otreps' is in response to my comment, I am sorry but I haven't seen all these articles about why non-profit organisations should get data for free whilst commercial and public sector organisations should have to pay. Please can I have some links to these articles especially if there is serious academic studies to back up these assertions. I am not argueing against Free Our Data just asking what is the justification for non-profit organisations \ projects being treated differently. If the comment from ‘otreps’ is in response to my comment, I am sorry but I haven’t seen all these articles about why non-profit organisations should get data for free whilst commercial and public sector organisations should have to pay. Please can I have some links to these articles especially if there is serious academic studies to back up these assertions.
I am not argueing against Free Our Data just asking what is the justification for non-profit organisations \ projects being treated differently.

]]> By: Save Ernest Marples | otrops http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/10/royal-mail-threat-likely-to-close-ernestmarples-org/comment-page-1/#comment-125864 Save Ernest Marples | otrops Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:35:45 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=509#comment-125864 [...] has been covered elsewhere by the Open Rights Group, Tom Watson, The Guardian Free Our Data blog and Boing Boing. Since they’ve already done a stellar job of discussing the issues [...] [...] has been covered elsewhere by the Open Rights Group, Tom Watson, The Guardian Free Our Data blog and Boing Boing. Since they’ve already done a stellar job of discussing the issues [...]

]]> By: Richard http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/10/royal-mail-threat-likely-to-close-ernestmarples-org/comment-page-1/#comment-125829 Richard Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:41:16 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=509#comment-125829 Why should non-profit organisations be subsidised by commercial organisations and the public sector? Why should non-profit organisations be subsidised by commercial organisations and the public sector?

]]> By: Ian Tresman http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2009/10/royal-mail-threat-likely-to-close-ernestmarples-org/comment-page-1/#comment-125784 Ian Tresman Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:28:27 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=509#comment-125784 There is down a Downing Street Petition asking the Prime Minister to encourage the Royal Mail to offer a free license for non-profit projects: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nfppostcodes/ There is down a Downing Street Petition asking the Prime Minister to encourage the Royal Mail to offer a free license for non-profit projects:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nfppostcodes/

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