[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

[Simon Poole]

Frederik, I'm fully aware of JS motives and tactics and normally avoid 
getting sucked in to his endless threads.

But it was  2 am and I was just finishing tax returns and associated 
book keeping. John Smith is a tiny bit more entertaining than that and I 
needed a short break :-)

Simon


Am 07.07.2011 08:58, schrieb Frederik Ramm:
> Simon,
> Andreas,
> all,
>
>    when discussing these things with the person who goes by the 
> pseudonym of "John Smith", keep in mind that he is spending a lot of 
> time building/supporting an OpenStreetMap "fork".
>
> The forkers, as I like to call them, are driven by all kinds of 
> motivations, the most benign probably being a sincere worry about data 
> loss - they believe that the license change is going to hurt OSM so 
> much that they must do all they can do retain a live copy of the "old 
> OSM", or even dissuade OSMF from changing altogether.
>
> Now if it turned out that the license change went through like a 
> breeze, with very limited data loss that is patched up within weeks, 
> they would become a laughing stock - like the prophet without the doom.
>
> While they started out wishing OSM to suffer the least possible 
> damage, their ego now forces them to demand the most rigid - even 
> absurd - data deletion policies for the license change lest they look 
> like idiots for starting a fork in the first place.
>
> Needless to say, this interesting psychological situation is not a 
> good basis for a rational argument.
>
> Or, to say it with fewer words: don't waste your time.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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