On Dec 5, 2009, at 20:51, Tobias Knerr <o...@tobias-knerr.de> wrote:
> 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? Oh we have those people though, matt is calm, rational and diligently replying to the concerns. Note its mostly misunderstood or ignored by people like 80n. That frees me to lose my temper with the passive aggressive lot who just want to screw everything up and can't work as a team. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
