SlashDot article: Pay for WX data?

[Rockwell Schrock]

I'm not sure if this relates to the previous post regarding the new Fair Weather Policy; regardless, this sounds pretty big:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/...027250&from=rss

 

[rdale]

It's a poorly written and non-researched attempt to stir the pot... The NWS has been providing data online for over a decade, so I find it hard to believe the Bush administration is considering whether they should allow NWS to put data online for free since they are now.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Does anyone remember the salient points of the Fair Weather Policy? As I recall, it was ambiguous and looked like it was turning data over to the big vendors rather than making it free, but there was a counterpoint that the opposite was true. This was so long ago that I can't remember how it went.

Tim

 

[Rockwell Schrock]

Is this the policy you're referring to, Tim?

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/partnershippolicy/