Steve, SteveC wrote: >> How is insulting people going to help things? > > By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down.
I understand that most statements you are responding to seem stupid, unnecessary or inappropriate to you. You might even think that those who posted them should really know better. But please take into account that many people reading this know much less than you do about the license change. Also, most people here don't know you, either. Your mails to OSM-talk might be their first impression of you. They also might be their first impression of the Foundation and the ODbL switch. You can't expect them to invest a lot of time to understand international copyright and database law. For them, it's all about trust - do they trust the calmly worded concerns (that sound perfectly valid to them, even if they in fact are BS - which isn't true for all of them, either, many are legitimate) or that angry guy who keeps telling them it's all nonsense? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
