[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

[John Smith]

2010/8/9 Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net>:
> With enough (motivated) people we can take any data loss, and rebuild
> our database to be better within a short timeframe.
>
> It may sound arrogant, but if you look at it rationally, we could even
> compensate for mappers demotivated by any data loss by the growth of our
> community.
> I'm not saying we can easily afford it, but to give hope that even a
> worst case scenario isn't that bad as some people make it out to be.

You've made a couple of big incorrect assumptions, firstly we have a
big lack of contributors at present in Australia and you are saying
it's ok to loose some major contributors just so data can be licensed
under "something better". If you can make something better why not
start your own project without impacting on the work of others instead
of making others jump through so many hoops?