Well put, Vern. Penny On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Vern Prescott via <[email protected]> wrote: > Certainly there is a huge cost in making this information available. But, > think about older databases that also involved great cost but which cost > has been recovered through years of subscription fees. The profits from > earlier databases should pay for the costs of delivering the new ones. If > we are to accept that extra fees are required to pay for producing this new > database, then surely the subscription costs for the old databases should > be significantly reduced as the production costs of those have already been > recouped. > On Oct 28, 2015 1:14 PM, "Adrian Bruce via" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Cash grab? Who do you think pays the camera operators? The guys who wrote > > the software? The companies who supply the hardware? Do you believe the > > employees of all these companies should work for free? FMP have laid out > a > > lot of cash on this, up front. > > > > (I have no idea about the licence to use the Register data itself - > whether > > FMP pays TNA for it, or TNA pays FMP to do the job, so I omitted it from > > the list above). > > > > The taxpayers can still do exactly what they did before, which is pay the > > government £49 per household. > > > > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > > fees! > > > > The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at [email protected] > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >