<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Peter Gervai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grinapo+osmtalk@gmail.com" target="_blank">grinapo+osmtalk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:01 PM, <a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ajt1047@gmail.com">ajt1047@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 22/11/2015 12:51, Colin Smale wrote:<br>
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> ...and once again, as seems to be the norm in OSM, any minority interest<br>
> which is not supported by the oligarchy gets mercilessly shot down.<br>
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> ... except it's not _just_ the "oligarchy", is it? No-one on this list<br>
> seems to have a good word for the original idea.<br>
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</span>And even many of the the lurkers don't. Central repository is bad for<br>
longevity.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Even if we completely ignore the licensing issues, there is a profit motive behind w3w. They gotta sell something. And I'd be shocked if it's not vanity words. So, say I start telling friends about this awesome sushi place at food.bear.utopia, but a competing eating establishment buys the naming rights and has it changed to sushi.sucks.ass. Now you're not going to find your salmon sashimi at food.bear.utopia because that's not a valid combination anymore.</div></div></div></div>