[Osmf-talk] seeking funding ideas
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Thu Apr 29 13:38:02 UTC 2010
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> *IF* it's done right and *IF* the price is high enough, it *MIGHT* be a
> good idea.
Seriously, it mightn't.
The "doing it right" and the "high enough price" aren't really the
issues. I agree it could be done right. But the lesson learned from
last time was community cohesion. Or, in other words, it pisses people
off => fewer mappers => less data.
And that was when we were a little project. I think these days you'd
be guaranteed 8 zillion Diggs about "OSM sells out", front-page on
Slashdot and Michael Douchebag Arrington writing some more nonsense on
TechCrunch. "High enough price" to counter all the negative PR? I
don't think there is such a thing.
Bear in mind also that there's a nascent commercial industry around
OSM. We want that industry to thrive, and competing with it wouldn't
help that.
cheers
Richard
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