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

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 24 04:58:40 BST 2011


On 24 June 2011 08:49, Julio Costa Zambelli
<julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl> wrote:
> 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

So you quote one line and fail to point out what falsities I'm making.



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