[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[Julio Costa Zambelli]

On 23 June 2011 16:52, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's much closer to what's been
> happening in the Arab States this year:


There are at least two big difference between revolutions in the Maghreb and
Arab Countries, and the License discussion inside OSM.

In this mailing lists it doesn't matter if a position is backed by one or
ten thousand people, one persons email message weight the same as fifty
thousand people shouting at Tahrir Square, even if that message has more in
common with one crazy guy screaming about conspiracy theories outside ground
zero. We are all going to receive it, the same for all of his/her following
messages, at least till we run tired and unsubscribe from the list.

And most importantly, there is zero intention of repression/censorship (I
guess some of you will try to argue about this, but you all know that if
some censorship had been applied when it could have been done, this
discussion wouldn't be happening), so that one person can "shout" as much as
he/she wants to, for as long as he/she wants to (probably till the License
change is completed, so be prepared for many more messages).

Now, taking it back to the mailing list and people responding, I think that
many of us let Steve, Frederik, Richard and others do the job of answering
John, 80n, etc. because we don't have the time and energy to do it. Luckily
there is always people willing to do the hard work of pushing things
forward.

Cheers
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