[dragonwriter]

Well, no, a customer has choices for most of those, because the government isn't hosting the data exclusively with a private vendor that charges the customer for access, providing an exclusive franchise to that vendor.

That was what was suggested upthread.

Requiring the user to have certain capacities to access data, where those capacities are provided by a number of competing vendors (and some by free, gratis and/or libre sources) is a very different thing.

[tonymet]

NPS is hosting this data on AWS , a private vendor. And NPS (ultimately taxpayers) pay for every query.

So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

[anon7725]

> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

I will make that trade every day of the week if it means access continues to be through a standard protocol (HTTP) and not beholden to any particular vendor.

[dragonwriter]

> So are you ok with some chinese APP company making 50 crappy NPS themed apps and having taxpayers pay for the backend?

Addressed in a comment in another subthread, which I know you are aware of since you responded to it, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39086270