[OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?

[Matthias Meißer]

Am 03.04.2012 19:14, schrieb yvecai:
> Le 03/04/2012 18:56, Richard Fairhurst a écrit :
>> Pieren wrote:
>>> we have a "media hype" (or media excitement ?) about Microsoft
>>> investing "big dollars" in OSM. [...]
>>> Where is the truth here ?
>> I'm sure we'd all like to know!
>>
>> I'm not aware of any announcement being made or (say) any formal contact
>> this year between Microsoft and OSMF.
> As I've seen no new informations in these articles, I'm inclined to
> think it's just a hype about the strategy war between the big 3 or
> something like that.


Same for me here. I monitor different media streams for OSM press works 
and it looked very much like a hype. No investigation and nobody checked 
the informations, just copy.... :(
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_in_the_media

But nevertheless I would agree that Bing gave us a real boost in mapping 
countryside etc.

Matthias
(user:!i!)