On 20/03/2010 13:34, Mike Harris wrote: > It might be worth bearing in mind that - thanks in part from the > pressures exerted by excellent projects such as OSM - the UK government > and the OS are in the process of considerably liberalising their > position on what may and what may not be done by taxpayers (who have > already funded both the OS and the Highway Authority!)
Fallacious argument. Virtually every adult in the UK is a taxpayer, whereas hardly anyone is an OSM mapper. When the OS sells its products to an individual taxpayer, it is a case of 'the many' selling to 'the few': everyone pays for the OS, but only a few use its products, so it's only fair that the few should compensate the many for the investment they've made. -- Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
