[kw-pm] How was YAPC::CA?

[lloyd carr]

For the goverment I would say yes, we already paid to collect the
information. A not for profit it would simply be a logical outcome of
wanting to get the word out. A for profit company, well ... for profit
companies are conflicted. On one hand they want to get the word out, on
the other hand "why should we give this valuable information away for
free?" If you see information as a revenue stream then it makes sense to
obfuscate your content.( I believe it is shortsighted of them, but I would
not compel anyone to make their content available in xml form, with the
exception of public government information )

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:58:32 -0400
> From: Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-pm at benshaw.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: Re: [kw-pm] How was YAPC::CA?
>
> > Which is why we need open source content as well as software.
> > If you have info that you want to give back to the community publish it
> > in xml, don't make people scrape for it ;-)
>
> Amen!  RDF and (more generally) raw XML availability should almost be
> required, not optional, IMO.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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