en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/557551 Comments by amin_adatia http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/05/trend-open-accessible-government-data/#IDComment23146148 Are they all not doing that already? All the contracts go the the big players who then farm out the work to their off-shore "partners". Then we wonder why the local economy does not support the purchase of $30K cars. Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:53:39 +0000 http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/05/trend-open-accessible-government-data/#IDComment23146148 http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/05/trend-open-accessible-government-data/#IDComment23145853 And do I need to incur the costs when I do not have to? Just for the sake of a philosophical concept? Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:51:51 +0000 http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/05/trend-open-accessible-government-data/#IDComment23145853 http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/05/trend-open-accessible-government-data/#IDComment23145705 To have data in an open format only needs your willingness to do the storage in that manner. Nothing to do with the OS or the software you use, is it? You can run Oracle in Linux and have the data encrypted or not and have the problem of a million records floating around when the laptop gets "stolen"/"misplaced". If that data was in "open format" how happy would you be? Tue, 2 Jun 2009 23:50:50 +0000 http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2009/05/trend-open-accessible-government-data/#IDComment23145705