On 20 Aug 2009, at 00:32, Jochen Topf wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 06:12:46PM -0700, SteveC wrote: >> But lets look at the real issue, Frederik. You're intensely jealous >> that your own firm, GeoFabrik, which you didn't bother to declare in >> your anti-CM email, has had little success compared to CloudMade. >> Your > > You probably shouldn't post things like this without talking to your > lawyer. We are not going to sue you over this, but other companies > might not like talk like this.
Sorry, what would you sue me for? >> jealous to the point of stripping all references to me out of your >> book on OpenStreetMap. You don't want anyone who's not from Germany >> to > > Steve, please, if you lie, then lie in a way that can't be checked > by looking > in our book on page 164 in chapter 14.6 titled "Karten von > CloudMade" ("Maps > from CloudMade"). The first sentence says: "Die englische Firma > Cloudmade, zu > deren Gründern der OpenStreetMap-Erfinder Steve Coast > gehört, ..." (The English > company CloudMade, to whichs founders belongs the OpenStreetMap- > Inventor Steve > Coast, ...) (Sorry for the bad translation, I have tried to keep to > the > original.) This quote is from the 2nd Edition (ISBN > 978-3-86541-320-8). > > Sorry if I don't have respect for people who lie and know it. > Because Frederik > any you have talked about this very issue already. Oh sorry, there is only one mention at the back, therefore it's ok. Why don't you remind everyone what page I was on in the first edition? But really it doesn't matter, your jealousy is well known. >> come to your German-only German SOTM your planning because you want >> your own little empire and fame. > > Where did you get this from? You and Frederik. > Everybody is of course welcome to the conference > we are planning. The conference language will be German, because > thats the > language that people here in Germany speak. I am sorry that this > excludes > a few billion people on this planet, but it includes the people in > Germany > who don't feel as comfortable with the English language. We already > have an > English language international conference (SOTM) and the one the > German > community is planning just caters to a different audience. So why don't you run an international SOTM? Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de