Steve Doerr - I don't think I understand your point? As had already been pointed out the OS are *not tax funded*. They act like any other company within the UK making and selling a product. They have done so for 11 years.
The whole campaign has been driven ahead by the public's anger over having to "pay for the mapping my taxes produced" - when in fact no such situation exists. But hey, leading on the ignorance is politics, right? On 21 March 2010 19:56, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
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