Maybe a few of you braver than the brave, loud-mouthed, armchair lawyers
should just STFU and give the board a break.
When some of you have had as much abuse and hassle in an unpaid job they
volunteered for, in their spare time, maybe then you would understand
how hard it is to please all of the people all of the time. Impossible
is the answer.
*IF* mistakes have been made, then they are honest mistakes made by
volunteers who stepped up to the mark to try to make OSM better.
*IF* mistakes have been made, AFAIK no real harm has been done. The
worst damage so far is to the pompous, over-sensitive "We Must Know
Everything" brigade who feel offended because they have not been
informed of every breath drawn. To them I say: Grow Up. An Open
community doesn't mean getting an email, text, tweet and personal letter
every time something happens. That's why we have a board - to deal with
stuff.
To the board I say, do your best guys and thank you very much for what
you do and how you do it. Don't be tempted to pick up the toys thrown
out of prams by a small group of people. That mistake was made during
licence-change and it just caused more upset. You were elected for a
term (at least) to do your best, so do it and good luck.
Threats to leave the project remind me of the bullshit thrown around
during licence-change when hardly anyone actually had the balls to
follow through. If people are so unhappy then go, but do so quickly and
quietly and leave the people really interested in OSM to continue making
the very best map database we can.
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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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