[OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

[Steve Coast]

On 6/18/2011 12:54 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:
> Erik Johansson writes:
>   >  The Troll word is used so often around in this community that it's
>   >  hard to speak about courtesy.
>
> That's because SteveC uses it on people who don't agree with him.

Can you point to an example where I call someone a troll who was not 
characterized by the wikipedia definition? 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

>   It's
> a form of brow-beating. Other people follow his lead.
>
> Trolling is posting positions just to get a response, not to seek a
> resolution. In fact, trolls actively avoid resolution, because they
> would then have to find another topic to troll about.
>
> Perhaps, better than accusing people of trolling (which is arguably
> itself a method of trolling), is to ask people what problem they are
> trying to solve with their writing. So, Dermot, why do you keep
> claiming that people who accept the CT have "voted" for it?
>
> For my part, the problem I'm trying to solve is that I don't want
> anybody to think that just because I signed onto the relicensing
> process, that I am in favor of it. I would be happier if suddenly
> there was an earthquake, and the entire relicensing process
> disappeared into the ground, never to be seen again. And that is
> because I disagree with the problem statement of the
> relicensing.
>
> Ain't nobody going to benefit from taking a dead copy of the OSM data
> away from us. Data is the corpse of action.  To misquote from "War
> Games": The only way to win the game is to play it.
>