On 4 Mar 2009, at 12:02, Nop wrote: > > Hi! > > Iván Sánchez Ortega schrieb: >> El Miércoles, 4 de Marzo de 2009, Ulf Lamping escribió: >>> Hopefully you know and trust the lawyers, foundation, whoever, ... >>> involved. WE PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THEM SO WHY SHOULD WE MAGICALLY >>> TRUST >>> THEM?!? >> >> Because they are more knowledgeable in their field than we are. >> >> >> I do think this is another ad-hominem attack against the ODbL. >> >> By using your same way of thinking, I shouldn't use my car because >> I don't >> know and trust the designers and assemblers that built it. Counter- >> examples >> could go on and on. > > The mappers don't know them and have no reason to trust them. They > will > have to prove that they are more knowledgable,
They have by passing the bar. > but with the prior > non-information policy they have not even shown that they *care* about > the mappers opinions at all. That's not necessarily a constraint. My mechanic doesn't *care* about my car and love it like I do. But happily it turns out that both Jordan and Clark are deeply passionate about these issues.... or they would not be working for free on them. Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
