On Jan 18, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Andy Allan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:33 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Richard's a socialist so I can see him arguing for weird government >> monopolies on making pinball machines for one-legged immigrants living in >> wales or whatever, but what are you arguing this for? What product will be >> nuked by OS releasing this? Are your commercial interests in OCM somehow >> affected? I don't get it. > > I'd be much more interested in replying if you discussed the issue, > instead of attacking the people.
Oh don't be so sensitive, Richard and I go back and forth on this all the time. I can understand why he argues for strange monopolies given his politcal ideals. Is that better? Now, why shouldn't I get free access to these maps? What is so special about them that we ned to grant a monopoly to protect a supposedly valuable sub-industry? I find it super weird you want a monopoly to protect industry, but there you go. What are the companies, products or jobs that will be hurt by it? Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
