Richard Fairhurst writes: > Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > > Why is Openstreetmap yielding to such blatant appropriation of > > the English language ? > > Because we have bigger battles to fight. Let Google piss their money away on > defending the term "geocode". If OSM has $1m to spend, which it doesn't, I'd > rather it spent it on making the site easier to use and attracting more > mappers, rather than throwing lawyers at a trademark troll.
Exactly. There are much bigger fish in this pond, and once they crush these idiots, "geocode" will be a generic term again. It hurts us, but it's not a problem we need to solve. On the other hand, there is no generic term for "geocode" NOW, so our position should be, until advised otherwise, that "geocode" is the generic term for "geocode". And once advised otherwise, we will promptly knuckle under, as is appropriate for a small fish. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
