<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Hi</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>I think we've squeezed just about enough conspiracy theories out of this thread. Let's end it.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>-Moderators</span></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> ThomasB <toba0211@yahoo.de><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 4, 2012 4:07 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?<br> </font> </div> <br>
<br>Richard Weait wrote<br>> <br>> No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data.<br>> <br>> You and I donate data :: we get OSM data under the OSM License<br>> RichardF donates code :: he gets OSM data under the OSM License<br>> Yahoo! donated imagery for years :: they get OSM data under the OSM<br>> License<br>> MapQuest actual big money :: they get OSM data under the OSM License<br>> USGS donated PD data :: they get OSM data under the OSM License<br>> <br>> etc.<br>> <br>> Bing is now donating aerial imagery :: they get OSM data under the OSM<br>> License<br>> .....<br>> <br>> It's all the same.<br>> <br>No, that's not true.They are violating our license and noone really cares.<br>It is known to OSM since January and MS admitted it.<br><br>RichardF wrote that there was no contact to MS .......although they violate<br>out license.<br>The issue was adressed in German media at a press
conference with the<br>Federal Government and it became public. <br><br>So they are not the same as anyone else. Other companies have been added<br>faster to the Hall of Shame of the License Working Group<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Truth-about-media-hype-in-Microsoft-lending-big-support-and-big-dollars-to-OSM-tp5615717p5618894.html<br>Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at <a target="_blank" href="http://Nabble.com">Nabble.com</a>.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>