The notification circulated by Mike Heyworth makes interesting reading. It
looks as if, taken to its logical conclusion, it could have implications for
SMRs as well. Am I right or misunderstandsing? And, if I am right, what do
we do about it?
Jim McNeil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Heyworth [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: The EU Public Sector Information Directive - Voting Imminent
>
> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 09 January 2003 12:37
>
> The EU Public Sector Information Directive - voting imminent
>
> The title sounds good - something that information workers should
> approve. And in principle it's not a bad concept. The basic idea is that
> information hoarded by governments should be made over at minimum cost to
> anyone who cares to make good use of it. Individuals, or more likely
> companies, will be free to add value to the information, or build it into
> databases, and use resulting product themselves or to sell on the open
> market.
>
<rest of message delated>
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