On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 15:21 +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
man, 13 09 2010 kl. 13:54 +0100, skrev Alex Hudson:
If we take that argument at face value, what we're saying is that for any Government website (as an example), people should have the right to run a modified version of it for their commercial purposes that have nothing to do with the Government data. It would be interesting to see the construction of an argument that those freedoms are necessary for good governance.
No. A website is a service that is provided but runs on the Government's server. [snip] And to pass the changes on to partners who need e.g. the same error corrections. That's two of the freedoms already.
You're pretty much entirely missing the point.
If we're saying that software freedom is not just a nice-to-have at Government level, but an actual necessity required for good governance, then the example I set out must be defensible - there has to be a good reason why that *must* be the case.
If it isn't, then at best only a subset of the freedoms are required.
Showing how freedoms can benefit Govt. is easy, but that's not the question.
Cheers
Alex.
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