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Man, this is a bad take. It makes passing mention of Google, ignoring the herd of elephants in the room. Google effectively did a bunch of dumping for years to
by mullingitover 6y ago
Man, this is a bad take. It makes passing mention of Google, ignoring the herd of elephants in the room. Google effectively did a bunch of dumping for years to grab market share, and the second they felt like they had it locked up they started turning the screws. No mention of that. I honestly can't tell if this is astroturfing or if the author is oblivious.
A bunch of companies contributing to a shared maps service is about as scary as a bunch of companies contributing to the linux kernel.
- ldng 6y agoBecause OSM does not actually need to care about Google ?
- mullingitover 6y agoPretty likely that the reason OSM is getting all this attention is because Google opened themselves to competition when they started (rationally) price gouging like there wasn't any.