[OSM-dev] Status of the Mapnik stylesheets

Derick Rethans osm at derickrethans.nl
Wed Nov 14 12:27:25 GMT 2012


On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> I fully agree that GitHub is popular, but it is a pet peeve of mine to point
> out that alternatives exist, just like other people will complain if an Open
> Source project runs its mailing list on Google or so. With GitHub in the hands
> of a commercial company I fear that before too long they'll do something
> stupid to monetize the user base; this has happened countless times before. As
> the old adage goes, "if you're not paying for the product then you are the
> product".

Lots of people *are* paying for it though. I certainly am.

cheers,
Derick



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