[OSM-talk] Java and freedom

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Martyn Welch <martyn at welchs.me.uk>:

> I respectfully agree and disagree.

Ok, that's probably as good a place as any to leave it, then.

> [...]
> However as someone who has recently started contributing to the
> project I'd like to mention that the largest barrier I faced was deciding
> which of the available packages would do what I felt I needed to do. My point
> was that increasing the number of available editors will make this decision
> harder, where as increasing the utility of those available will make this
> choice easier. I say this as a newbie.

Understood. I can't do the latter because I don't speaka da language.  
My aim in writing a Flash editor, as it would be in any development  
project, is to make something so good that the choice is easy - to  
write an in-browser editor that reaches the dizzy heights of  
excellence that JOSM does as a standalone.

Richard