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'This is why we can't have nice things'
by nkozyra 12y ago
'This is why we can't have nice things'
- learnstats2 12y agoWhy, exactly? Is it because Google asked for a bunch of free work to support its commercial interests without providing any oversight at all? And now they won't provide the resources to fix their problem? Doesn't it seem likely that one of Google's goals here was just to compete with and thus extinguish existing free services? Is that why we can't have nice things?
- JustSomeNobody 12y agoI'm curious, now that you've mentioned it. There's clearly evidence to support us not having nice things because of childish pranks. Where's the evidence to support Google's goal was just to extinguish free services? Do you have any links or anything to show what you mean?
- Fogest 12y agoI am pretty sure that was a baseless argument just to hate on Google.
- rmc 12y agoExcept that OpenStreetMap is a real wiki map and is producing a real map to rival Google Maps. We can have nice things, We have OSM