Chris Browet wrote:
The fact that many key players (SteveC, Frederik, Richard(?)) in the
project also have commercial interests in the OSM data also make me
nervous and doubtful.
looking at Frederik this statement sounds offending to me! HINT: I don't
want to comment on the other persons (SteveC, Richard) simpley as I'm
not in contact with them that much.
@Chris: did you ever check what Frederik or to be more precise the
Geofabrik (= Frederik + Jochen) is offering to the community? If you
would have had, you would not give a statement like that:
* look at the talk Frederik gave at the SOTM 2009 (how to earn money
with OSM) where he requests a fair (!) partnership from "commercial
companies"
* they offer processing and free download of data (download.geofabrik.de)
* they offer an amount of tools developed by themselves and hosted at
their servers (tools.geofabrik.de) who really help the community
* they generated and printed flyers for the community in Germany ans
send them out for free (!)
* they generated and printed large maps (e.g. A0 size) for the community
for use e.g. at conferences in Germany
* they provided sollutions e.g. for imports of data provided by some
communities in Germany
* they are helpfull and activeley contribute to the project (e.g.
Frederik in the Data Working Group)
* they give a lot of talks e.g. at trade shows / conferences to attract
to the project
Of cause they are not sainty [1] but they are more than fair: they could
give much less back to the community but they don't do as they are a
real "open" company from "open source persons". I would be happy if we
would have more people like Frederik and Jochen within the project!
But maybe the whole discussion should go to "legal talk".
Best regards,
Michael.
add [1]: who is sainty? I don't think anybody including myself and you
is this.
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