| Margie |
| (Senior Storm Chaser) |
| Thu May 25 2006 06:05 PM |
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Re: dark day?
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Last year, I requested info from FSU and received a reply that the particular information was not available to the general public. pshaw! I found a backdoor for the info I wanted.
That is the problem.
Weather information that is provided by the government is paid for by tax dollars, is public domain, and should be so.
Not all university research is funded through tax dollars. A surprisingly large amount is funded by private interests, and in such cases bound by legal agreements, and by definition is not public domain. What is further, there is a difference between an experimental prototype, which is still being researched and improved, and any targeted future commercial product that can be derived from it.
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I like being able to have many different types of data to look through.
Just because information exists, doesn't mean it is public domain.
edited to remove directed remarks~danielw