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Ohoh! OpenStreetMap is in danger...again and again...
by nix23 4y ago
Ohoh! OpenStreetMap is in danger...again and again...
- mtmail 4y agoIs this regarding "OpenStreetMap is in trouble – a critical take on Bing Map Builder" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34680958 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34680958) discussion yesterday? Microsoft is known to water down open source, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... was a phrase by the U.S. Department of Justice. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is more like a sister project to OpenStreetMap. Very open, shared technology, many volunteers work on both, same conferences. The focus is different, some of the funding comes from different sources.
- Doctor_Fegg 4y agoHeaven knows what'll happen if we ever start succeeding!