[weddpros]

Sorry if I hurt you. I deeply regret that the government made such an announcement with "nothing" to show.

Just imagine a startup making such an announcement on HN, to show only XLS documents, and calling it OpenData... Well, that's just what it looked like when that post made it to the front page of HN.

Recently, the government proudly announced an "OpenData" website about drugs... but it proved to be a website where documentation about drugs could be read online. It existed YEARS before, and it doesn't become OpenData just because it's hosted by the gov! No raw data, no API: there will be no app which allows you to scan barcodes and tell you about conflicts between drugs, no app to prevent adverse effects depending on you health condition. No app I can imagine, no app you can imagine. They just wasted our money for no added benefit.

I think they (France) do not understand what OpenData is.

Data does not become OpenData just because it's accessible on the net. It's OpenData if you can build something with it.

Think "source code in PDF format on GitHub" and you should agree that OpenSource and OpenData must be more than simply available online.