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<FONT FACE="MS Shell Dlg" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE">On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:06:36 +1000, John Smith wrote:<BR>
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>2009/12/14 Brendan Morley <<FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>morb.gis@beagle.com.au<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>>:<BR>
>> What is *materially removed* from you if your "labour is used to<BR>
>> commercially benefit others" and/or "commercial companies [are] just sucking<BR>
>> up all<BR>
>> the data and not giving hardly anything back in return if they extend the<BR>
>> map"?<BR>
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>I'm not a source of free labour for multinational corporations to<BR>
>abuse, if they want to hire me that's fine, but I choose to not work<BR>
>for them for free unless they want to contribute back as well.<BR>
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I suppose you would have hated contributing to Linux then.<BR>
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National corporations are OK then? Where do you draw the line?<BR>
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All other things being equal, they "give back" by being able to make a profit at a *lower* selling price than what they otherwise would if they had to commission their own additional survey.<BR>
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You didn't answer the question about what of yours is materially removed btw.<BR>
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Brendan<BR>
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