[Talk-us] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Slack

[Greg Troxel]

Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com> writes:

>         Really nice discussion of the issues around using for-profit tools
> in an open-source organization.

The for-profit point isn't really the core issue.

IMHO the big issues are

  the use of non-Free software on servers

  the use of non-Free software on clients

  asking people who participate in OSM to enter into an agreement with
  some entity other than OSMF (or OSMF-US etc.)

So OSMF deciding to pay a company to provide hosting services and
sysadmin to support Free tools (such that people can use it without
signing a contract with the hosting company) would be fine.  Even having
non-Free server code and Free clients, with no contracts, would be
better.

(I have no real idea about slack, except that it seems to be a
walled-garden type place.)
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