[Osmf-talk] false Microsoft "big dollars" rumour

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Fri Apr 20 10:22:18 UTC 2012



Am 20.04.2012 06:26, schrieb Harry Wood:
> Maybe. Although looking at it another way, *having* such a list might
> send out a message to casual visitors that we're massively under the
> influence of big evil corporations. But you're not wrong. I can see
> advantages and disadvantages of a major donors list. We discussed it a
> bit in the CWG meeting (draft
> minutes: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/CWG_meeting_2012-04-16 )
>  and we'll discuss it some more. Certainly haven't ruled it

I would also oppose this because what you are referring to as "major
donors", are not actually major donors to the project. Even donations
that have got specific mention like, for example, ESRI, are
substantially smaller in value than what a typical top 2'000 mapper has
donated, not to mention the value of what our software devs have
produced or the time our sys admins have provided.

Again: the appropriate way to defuse idle speculation is to simply
provide timely and correct financials.

Simon







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