As the Obama administration proceeds with the open government initiatives, a laudable effort in and of itself, I wonder what their plans are to cope with the ever rising costs for licensing third party content such as map data.
http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/06/08/data-transparency-via-datagov/
There are different licensing agreements for data that is inward facing and outward facing and different cost structures. Are these initiatives in the name open systems, a la cloud systems, accounting for the ever rising costs of deploying copyright information licensened for internal use originally?
The cloud may be open but it isn't free. IBM and Oracle won't tell you that.
No comments:
Post a Comment