Friday May 08, 2009 ☞ Freedoms, their use and abuse
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"In a speech to the NESTA / UNESCO Public Service Media 2009 Conference the Minister announced plans for an overhaul of Crown Copyright rules that will make it easier for citizens to re-use Government information" - sounds fantastic, looking forward to the chance to study the details.
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That's version 3.1. I've been running both the Mac and Linux versions since RC1, and I can confirm that it's good.
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If the direction of government is eGovernment, and the citizen interaction with government will be mainly over the internet (2-way interaction, not just reading information), it follows that access to the internet may not be prevented except in the most extreme circumstances where other basic rights are validly limited as well (such as during imprisonment). On that basis, it seems to me obvious that Reding is right and internet access is a fundamental right in Europe.
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When a law achieves zero success achieving its objective but provides a path for the substantial erosion of civil liberty, you know it needs repealing. Here's exhibit A in the UK.
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The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised. It's what Stephe Walli talked about years ago as the "best" strategy for MSFT for whom "interoperability" generally means "can migrate into our product" (AKA "into-operability").
Posted by webmink
( May 08 2009, 07:30:28 AM PDT )
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