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by emacsen 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604
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by emacsen 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394604
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OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble(blog.emacsen.net)
1062 points by emacsen 9y ago|284 comments
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by emacsen 9y ago
> I hope your post won't end up being so generalist as this comment is. If I was going to write a simple one sentence or one paragraph analysis of why the project is not living up to its expectations, it would be easy and I would b
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by emacsen 9y ago
Great catch! Short answer: https://blog.emacsen.net/atom.xml Longer answer: I switched blogging software a few months ago and thought I'd changed everything over, but apparently I'd missed the atom/rss feeds.
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by emacsen 9y ago
Sadly, as much of a critic of OSM that I've become, this analysis of the situation is untrue. Mapping companies simply consolidated, and Google began agressively mapping on its own.
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by emacsen 9y ago
Wow... How odd to log into Hacker News and see this. I'm the author of the post back in 2014. The sad thing is that I'm midway through writing a new post about why I feel OSM is failing. I have largely stepped away from the projec
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by emacsen 12y ago
Right but they also didn't have rights to distribute the work. There will be issues of demonstrating damages, but you can't just say "Oh sure I violated your copyright... but now that you take me to court, I'll stop.&quo
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by emacsen 12y ago
The issue is that there's linking, not merely calling from. As for "what came first"- the license (which is a legal contract) specifies what is and isn't allowed. The LGPL would work in the way you are saying that VMWare
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by emacsen 12y ago
I agree. If you want to help the little guy here, then pleased donate to fund the lawsuit: http://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-app...
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by emacsen 12y ago
This is just speculation but I suspect this is a matter of being caught with their pants down. They violated the GPL, but to comply with the license would mean that they'd have to release a lot of code that they don't want to rele
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VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation(sfconservancy.org)
664 points by emacsen 12y ago|289 comments
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The role of the fringe in the Free Software and Esperanto communities(blog.emacsen.net)
1 points by emacsen 13y ago|0 comments
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by emacsen 14y ago
I've needed something like this for years . This is awesome!
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by emacsen 14y ago
I'm sad that you feel that the post was dictating behavior based on gender. I'm surprised and frustrated at how many people are reading things in the article that I never wrote, and never implied- like the sentiment you expressed, or the id
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by emacsen 14y ago
> If you read the article again, you may find that the gender difference which became apparent to the author has to do with the /response/ to Dave's behaviour, and not with his behaviour /per se/. This is correct. I'm the author of the