On Mar 21, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Steve Doerr wrote: > 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.
... against their will. Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
