[OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

[Liz]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Shalabh wrote:
> While I am not advocating a fork (I am anyway voting a yes to ODBL), I dont
> think a single community is always the answer. Single communities tend to
> get static for the lack of competition. All successful open source projects
> have parallels, whether through forking or because of different organic
> origins. So I dont think if OSM has a parallel because of forking, it would
> be bad. Gives people more choices to choose from and thats what freedom is
> all about.

Honestly I'm happy to have GoogleMap as the competitor.