Moved from Subject: Topology - this has nothing to do with topology.<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Schuyler Erle</b> <<a href="mailto:schuyler@nocat.net">
schuyler@nocat.net</a>><br>Date: Apr 27, 2007 6:06 AM<br>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Topology<br>To: "J.D. Schmidt" <<a href="mailto:jdsmobile@gmail.com">jdsmobile@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">
talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><br><br><br></span>* On 24-Apr-2007 at 3:44AM PDT, J.D. Schmidt said:<br>><br>> Where in my reply did you see me state that ? That must be your own<br>> conclusion, since thats not what I said.
<br>><br>> Fact : Erle, Jo, and Chris was/is involved in a project of similar<br>> nature as OSM.<br><br>Fact: No one is competing with OSM.<br><br>You refer to three people, all of whom fervently want to see<br>
OpenStreetMap succeed. The reason I have been working on my own<br>projects for the last couple of years is that I have *always* felt<br>unwelcomed by certain members of the community, and feel that I have<br>seen other people driven away similarly. I don't want to speculate
<br>about why this has been; but I think that we can all agree now that<br>OSM has become too important a project to let a little social<br>awkwardness like that get in the way of working to help it to continue<br>to succeed. We are all, I assure you, on the same side.
<br><br>> But hey, we're all different. Some do things constructively, some do it<br>> destructively. I know which way gets the best results, so I'm sticking<br>> to that.<br><br>I think I consider allegations of "hidden motives" to be more
<br>destructive than constructive, but I would rather let it slide. The<br>next time you have doubts about me or my motives, please as a simple<br>matter of personal respect address them to me personally before<br>drawing spurious conclusions in public. This whole thing has been so
<br>unnecessary.<br><br>SDE<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk">
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