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On 6/2/05, Jon Brown <> wrote:
> I agree the NOAA data should be free to the public, but I don't think this is a "moral" issue.
>
I think it's a moral issue in that it is a public safety issue. Are
people to be denied access to the data they need to safely navigate,
data they paid to have collected already, if they can't pay the
commercial data formatters? How many lives is the equity of
Accuweather shareholders worth?
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