Frederik, I'm fully aware of JS motives and tactics and normally avoid
getting sucked in to his endless threads.
But it was 2 am and I was just finishing tax returns and associated
book keeping. John Smith is a tiny bit more entertaining than that and I
needed a short break :-)
Simon
Am 07.07.2011 08:58, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
Simon,
Andreas,
all,
when discussing these things with the person who goes by the
pseudonym of "John Smith", keep in mind that he is spending a lot of
time building/supporting an OpenStreetMap "fork".
The forkers, as I like to call them, are driven by all kinds of
motivations, the most benign probably being a sincere worry about data
loss - they believe that the license change is going to hurt OSM so
much that they must do all they can do retain a live copy of the "old
OSM", or even dissuade OSMF from changing altogether.
Now if it turned out that the license change went through like a
breeze, with very limited data loss that is patched up within weeks,
they would become a laughing stock - like the prophet without the doom.
While they started out wishing OSM to suffer the least possible
damage, their ego now forces them to demand the most rigid - even
absurd - data deletion policies for the license change lest they look
like idiots for starting a fork in the first place.
Needless to say, this interesting psychological situation is not a
good basis for a rational argument.
Or, to say it with fewer words: don't waste your time.
Bye
Frederik
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