[OSM-talk] USA and Canada beat Germany to ban Potlatch

2008-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, from Wikipedia: Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1885 and the United States in the late nineteenth century, largely at the urging of missionaries and government agents who considered it a worse than useless custom that was seen as wasteful, unproductive which was not part of

Re: [OSM-talk] USA and Canada beat Germany to ban Potlatch

2008-09-29 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Lunes, 29 de Septiembre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: from Wikipedia: Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1885 Early versions sure were buggy... -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly running Debian Linux with 2.6.26-1-amd64

Re: [OSM-talk] USA and Canada beat Germany to ban Potlatch

2008-09-29 Thread Nic Roets
Richard anticipated this earlier this month (and it turns out he's quite well-read) : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Richard/diary/3250#comments On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, from Wikipedia: Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1885