On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 09:03 +0100, Nick Black wrote: > > Surely the biggest victory for any open source project is to squash > its competitors and completely change the game? Few open source > projects have achieved this. In 5 years time, the entire concept > of proprietary maps created by guys in vans could be a thing of the > past. OpenStreetMap and our way of doing things will have completely > wiped the floor with our competitors. We can only get to this point > if we stop thinking of ourselves as a small, specialist community and > start to think of ourselves as a mainstream movement that caters for > the needs of everyone - not just the free software world. > But still, If you want an *open source* project to "squash its competitors and completely change the game" Then in my opinion you need to do that with *open source*. So while I do agree with routing being a good showcase and attraction to the project, I think this project is only succeeding in it's goals because of the open source nature, and we need to protect that.
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