> Free access to route beta is not essential for climbing. Viet Nguyen, OpenBeta's founder here. As mentioned in my post above, besides climbing, many of us a

> Free access to route beta is not essential for climbing. Viet Nguyen, OpenBeta's founder here. As mentioned in my post above, besides climbing, many of us are hackers and data nerds. All we wanted is to be able to access and tinker with the community-generated climbing data to make maps of climbing walls, study Python Pandas and recommendation engines, etc. Open access to climbing data doesn’t have to be about the physical aspects of climbing, for the same reason open source enthusiasts wanting to have access to the source code. It doesn't mean we're not supporting commercial derivative of a project.