This is about defending the coalition agreement, which has aspirations about open source software and open data in it that come straight out of the Lib Dem poli

This is about defending the coalition agreement, which has aspirations about open source software and open data in it that come straight out of the Lib Dem policy book. Admittedly Europe wasn't (and OSS/Open Standards wouldn't be) the most electorally-useful topic to pick a fight on, but since when have Lib Dems ever done anything the easy way. It's our policy, I and some of our voters care about it, and we won the concession off the tories during the coalition negotiation. That should be enough to make us fight for it, when the time comes.