[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?

[Anthony]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> I'd say that anyone who can devise a general tool which
> can merge all the different foreign databases together has thereby
> rendered OSM obsolete.

...at least in any jurisdictions without sweat-of-the-brow.  Why
bother with OSM if you can just have a computer program extract all
the factual information from everyone else's databases and merge them
together into one-database-to-rule-them-all?