[OSM-talk] About my stubbornness

[Benjamin Kellermann]

Am Sonntag, den 23.07.2006, 14:51 +0200 schrieb Wollschaf:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:12:47 +0200, Immanuel Scholz wrote:
> >- the data should be free accessible for all time
> 
> It should be possible to fork a project on the base of OSM, which it
> is, IMHO.

Do you really think this would be possible without a database
representation? 
Maybe it would be, but with a much more trouble.

> Essential decisions (Licensing etc.) have to be made by the community.
> 
> > - anonymity is good
> 
> Correct. I dont' see why you need an anonymous account for that. People
> wishing to stay anonymous will not use their real email address for
> signing up, nor any relevant password.

Much people do not wish to stay anonymous, they just want not to
register! This is not a discussion for people who surf through
anon-proxy or onion-routing and delete their cookies and browser cache
every 2 Mitutes. It is a thing of simplicity. We loose much manpower if
we forbid anonymity and gain nothing.
The seemingly advantage of separating "good" people which do not upload
copyrighted data from "bad" ones can achieved in a similar way by
logging ip addresses.

> Iit would be a complete hassle to find out what one account that made
> thousands of changes to the datasatet actually did (with malicious
> intent), and revert those changes without losing other valuable data.

You do not get people who has malicious intent. You can create hundred
different accounts and upload ten changes per account (to a different
time through a different proxy).

> It would be an anonymity breach to give out all login details.

One more reason to log everything ip-address based.
BTW: nobody wants to give out every login detail, for ex. passwd is not
necessary... 

Bye, Ben

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