On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Shalabh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shalabh.w@gmail.com">shalabh.w@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Liz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edodd@billiau.net" target="_blank">edodd@billiau.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Shalabh wrote:<br>
> While I am not advocating a fork (I am anyway voting a yes to ODBL), I dont<br>
> think a single community is always the answer. Single communities tend to<br>
> get static for the lack of competition. All successful open source projects<br>
> have parallels, whether through forking or because of different organic<br>
> origins. So I dont think if OSM has a parallel because of forking, it would<br>
> be bad. Gives people more choices to choose from and thats what freedom is<br>
> all about.<br>
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</div>Honestly I'm happy to have GoogleMap as the competitor.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>Sorry, google is anyway not the only competitor.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Nor are they a competitor in the first place.<br>
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