[Talk-de] Hello from England

[SteveC]

On 6 Jul 2009, at 10:45, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> SteveC wrote:
>> I was told though that I was taken out of the second edition of the
>> book, is that right? I remember I was mentioned fairy up front in the
>> first edition.
>
> We have a section on CloudMade (p.164) where we say that "one of the
> CloudMade founders is Steve Coast, inventor of OpenStreetMap".
>
> (Es gibt einen Abschnitt ueber CloudMade (S. 164) wo wir schreiben,  
> dass
> zu den CloudMade-Gruendern auch der OSM-Erfinder Steve Coast gehoert.)

Dear oh dear.

>> I think what you meant to say is that Jon Wilbanks, a guy from from
>> Science Commons, thinks we should use it, and he also thinks every
>> database in the whole world should use it?
>
> Do you think I should ask Creative Commons for a statement, and do you
> have reason to believe they will say "oh sorry, John Wilbanks just  
> talks
> bullshit"? If I remember correctly, Thinh Nguyen has, in his official
> Creative Commons capacity, basically re-iterated what John Wilbanks  
> has
> said.
>
> (Denkst Du, ich sollte Creative Commons danach fragen, und gibt es  
> einen
> Grund, anzunehmen, dass sie dann sagen "oh, sorry, John Wilbanks redet
> Mist"? Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, hat Thing Nguyen als offizieller
> Creative Commons-Vertreter im Grunde genau das gleiche wie John  
> Wilbanks
> gesagt.)

Well what else would they say, it's the only license they have that  
even applies. If you asked Microsoft what OS you should use, what do  
you think they would say? The other problem is they've made the leap  
from just providing licenses to taking a moral stance against anything  
but PD for data. All data in the entire world. That's nuts.

Best

Steve