[OSM-talk] [osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

[John Smith]

On 25 August 2011 19:15, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> Hasn't it happened in the past that large numbers of Cloudmade employees have
> joined the OSMF?  That didn't cause the organization to be somehow subverted,
> and neither will people who work for Skobbler (or Microsoft, or whoever).

In the past OSM-F was merely supporting OSM contributors, now that
they've decided to "own" the database things are some what different,
and OSM-F has set itself up as a target.