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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Dec 11 21:08:06 GMT 2009


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Shalabh <shalabh.w at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Sorry, google is anyway not the only competitor.
>

Nor are they a competitor in the first place.
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