[OSM-talk] OSM is dying (was Re: We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities)

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/4/11 Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com>:
> OSM is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
> OSM is to survive at all it will be among bearded hippies too behind
> the times to have discovered Waze. OSM continues to decay. Nothing
> short of a cockeyed miracle could save OSM from its fate at this point
> in time. For all practical purposes, OSM is dead.


While I guess this was meant to be satirical there is indeed a problem
with active contributors not growing any more since 17/08/2009
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Osmdbstats4.png

cheers,
Martin