On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote:
> 2010/8/23 Michael Kugelmann <michaelk_...@gmx.de>: > > BTW: @Felix Hartmann > > using words like > >> > >> so fuck off. > > > > shows that you don't have arguments. So step back - defamation is alsways > a > > sign of weakness. Learn a good conduct before you continues with the > > discussion. > > > to be fair: he didn't write (others) should f**k off, what he meant > was "clearly state this somewhere and tell everyone else to fuck off". > Thus I agree that this might not be adequate language, you shouldn't > critisize him for that, probably he wasn't aware because English is > not his primary language. > > On the argument I agree though: make your own mailing lists for your > fork. It's probably OK to announce it here (with an URL where to go, > which was actually missing in your announcement), but further > discussions should then be brought to the place of your fork, not > inside the resources of OSM. > > I also agree it would be absurd to have OSM handle over the account > data of its contributors (and is against almost any privacy law at > least in Europe). There is also no logics in that: people who want to > can simply create a new account with their old credentials on the fork > site (I'm not planning to join the fork, but if I was I surely > wouldn't use the same pw I used for OSM). > > There is absolutely no need for OSM to relinquish any private account data. No fork will ever need that data and I doubt that any fork would even bother asking OSM for it.
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