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• Open Standards law approved in Portugal
  The law is a great thing, as long as the actual implementation leads to greater software freedom. I humbly suggest the Portuguese government consider my Sentinel Effect essay in this regard…
• Cabinet Office FOI responses ‘too slow’
  One great and smart way to reduce the (legitimate) cost of satisfying freedom of information requests is to publish the data online in machine-readable open formats in the first place. Hopefully the guilty parties here are considering that and not just buying more photocopiers.
• What do you think about Norway’s new open data license?
  I think it’s a great thing, especially the explicit compatibility statements.

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