Check it out, originally "an email to Googlers about the meaning of 'open' as it relates to the Internet, Google, and our users", via: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
"We can photograph the world's streets so that you can explore the neighborhood around an apartment you are considering renting from a thousand miles away. ... we make numerous platforms - video, maps, mobile, PCs, voice, enterprise - better, more competitive, and more innovative. We are often attacked for being too big, but sometimes being bigger allows us to take on the impossible. All of this is useless, however, if we fail when it comes to being open. So we need to constantly push ourselves." "Open will win." Interestingly, there is NO mention of mapping data. Amazing. How can they continue to omit this from the discussion? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
