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by Buetol 3891 days ago
OpenCorporates limits you to 500 req/month + hard to download data in bulk (you have to pay) => This is a good example of what Open Data should not be.

The crazy part is how they receive so many OpenData prizes while being so closed.
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herah 3891 days ago
The data is under a share-alike license which means if you're not going to share the results of the whatever you're going to do with the data with the rest of the world. A lot of academics, open data projects, NGOs and journalists use our Open Data API without any problem but ofcourse, we use the profits from selling our data to businesses to support the organisation. We think it's really important an organisation such as OpenCorporates remains sustainable and that's why we have this model.
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Buetol 3889 days ago
That's a fair reasoning. I'm just saying that this is not opendata for me. And calling yourself opendata is misleading in my opinion.
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