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Stephen Downes

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OK, so the entire CIA Factbook is already online, right? Free and open, no charge. So now there's an iPhone app. It costs about a dollar. So how is this value for money? James Clay says, "the information is 'available online for free' and that's the crunch, you have to be online to be able to access that free information, which means it isn't free!" Well, if I'm just using my regular connection, I using about one cent worth of my connectivity to access the information. Or I could just download the Factbook.

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