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

[Nic Roets]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 AM, 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.

Basically all you are saying is that mailing lists are a bad way to
measure support. And I agree 100%.

Can you can prove that the average contributor thinks that the average
contributor thinks that the benefits* of the ODbL exceeds the cost of
implementing it** ? Then I will personally start telling people that
they are in the minority and should go away.

*: Looking at whitehouse.gov, the software on my phone etc, I can't
see a single thing that will change (either positive or negative).

**: To implement it, we will have to delete some data. We are
bothering people by sending them email and if they do not respond, we
use facebook etc.