[OSM-talk] Is this the time to get Garmin to go Open

[Jeffrey Martin]

Is this the time to ask Garmin to go Open source?

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/07/technology/gps_services.fortune/index2.htm
>From CNN Money:

The company harmed most by Nokia's buying Navteq is Garmin (Charts)
($115). In the short term, the GPS-device maker faces a potential
squeeze in getting the digital maps that are the core of its products.
Navteq's largest customer is Garmin. And while Nokia promises to honor
the mapmaker's current contracts, you can bet when it comes time to
renegotiate, the leverage Garmin has enjoyed on pricing -- and even on
choosing what region of the world Navteq maps next -- will be much
weaker in the face of Nokia's plans for global wireless domination.
Navteq will go where Nokia, not Garmin, wants it to go.

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