On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote:
> From what I understand, it appears that OSM is cutting ties with many of > these due to the wording of the new license/CT. That's totally wrong. We're seeing greater commercial support than ever before, and we're seeing (for example) the French government adopt the OBbL. I've been around the FLOSS community a long time (since 1997) and I've seen lots of these forks. Forks are almost always bad. There are a few times when a fork is necessary (such as the OpenSolaris fork into Illumos and the OpenOffice fork to LibreOffice) but in anything but extraordinary circumstances, all a fork does it hurt the community by splitting the efforts up. I don't think all the forkers are inherently evil, but I do think that these efforts to compete with OSM will just result in overall worse data for OSM and for any potential other project out there, and that's really a shame. - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
