Why so negative? OSM is now business critical to a lot of companies. These companies are of course being selfish. But the side effect of this is a lot of invest

Why so negative? OSM is now business critical to a lot of companies. These companies are of course being selfish. But the side effect of this is a lot of investment in the data and community itself. Tom Tom have got their work cut out, this space is super competitive. Just passively taking the data is not a way to compete in this space. You need to step up to stand out. Tom Tom is doing this out of necessity. They've been active in this space for a long time but they are now getting a lot of competition from other companies; many of whom are pooling resources via open data efforts, like open street maps. That gives these companies a cost advantage because maintaining maps is an expensive business and the base map is now a free commodity.