[OSM-talk] We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

[Thomas Davie]

On 11 Apr 2011, at 17:16, Emilie Laffray wrote:

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> On 11 April 2011 16:48, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If you don't mind about being open, why are you not just using Google's data already?
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> Hello,
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> thank you for your insightful comment, I will move immediately to Google and start using their data directly. Can you point out to me where I can access their data so I can make an efficient use of them?

Congratulations, I believe a "whoosh" is in order.

The original post is essentially suggesting that we should paint ourselves as black as google already is – he's suggesting that letting google work with our ideas and data is a bad thing... How is this in any way better than google saying that us working with their ideas and data is bad?

Tom Davie
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