On 12/03/2010 07:54, John Smith wrote: > On 12 March 2010 17:50, Frederik Ramm<frede...@remote.org> wrote: >> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> If all the code and all the tools we used were to be licensed costly >>> software, who would pay for OSM? >> We'd all use Google Map Maker then. Under Safari ;-) > What about Mapzen under IE? *ducks*
*giggles* I love open source, really. And I will happily hold forth on how Potlatch is more open-source than thou thanks to its ultra-permissive licence (legal-talk is that way ---> ). But I don't feel I have any right to tell someone else what "freedoms" they should value. I use a Mac because the freedom to use a computer in the way that feels right for me is, IMO, more important than the freedom to modify a load of source code I'm not clever enough to understand. If you don't like Flash that's great, that's entirely your prerogative. I don't mind and I promise not to bug you about your chosen editor's unpermissive licence. But that's my opinion, and this is yours, and "respectable" doesn't come into it. Memo to self: really really don't respond to licensing-type arguments after n pints of Black Rat scrumpy. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk