Am Do 27. März 2008 schrieb Sander van Grieken: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And working phone operating systems can be bought from Symbian, Apple > >> and even Microsoft. And yet we develop a new one! > >> > >> The whole point of Open Source is the freedom (and fun) to participate. > > > > That's why I am opposed to running TomTom software on the Freerunner. > > I know their software, and I know their maps, but closed source and > > closed data will not help us forward... > > I disagree. There's a difference between free speech and free beer, and you want the > latter. > > I am willing to pay for high quality maps, because it takes considerable > amount of work to create them and keep them up-to-date, AND it doesn't > impair my 'free speech' freedoms. > I'd rather use an open source navigation software together > with commercial maps than use the tomtom navigation software, because that > WOULD impair my 'free speech' freedom.
No, even this actually is perfect. I'd like very much to see TomTom adapt and _sell_ their app to NEO. And of course it's nice to have an OSS-app that is capable to read commercial map data, Teleatlas or brand TomTom (isn't it the same?). And it's damn cool to have community driven map data like OSM with a detail and accuracy that's comparable to commercial data. In no way TomTom will stop OSM progress, when they make "go" available on NEO. It's the other way round: NEO gains popularity with killer apps like GPS-route&guidance, I easily can imagine a lot of people who start by using TomTom, later may consider to migrate to OSM, for actuality / foreign maps / fun, whatever reason. jOERG _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community