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

[Lester Caine]

Matthias Meißer wrote:
> 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.

But it's not actually costing them anything? They would be putting the images up 
anyway, so THEY are the only ones who gain by getting back free vectorized data?

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