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

[Mikel Maron]

Hi

I think we've squeezed just about enough conspiracy theories out of this thread. Let's end it.

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> From: ThomasB <toba0211 at yahoo.de>
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 4:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Truth about media hype in Microsoft lending big support and big dollars to OSM ?
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>Richard Weait wrote
>> 
>> No donor to OSM gets special terms or access to the data.
>> 
>> You and I donate data :: we get OSM data under the OSM License
>> RichardF donates code :: he gets OSM data under the OSM License
>> Yahoo! donated imagery for years :: they get OSM data under the OSM
>> License
>> MapQuest actual big money :: they get OSM data under the OSM License
>> USGS donated PD data :: they get OSM data under the OSM License
>> 
>> etc.
>> 
>> Bing is now donating aerial imagery :: they get OSM data under the OSM
>> License
>> .....
>> 
>> It's all the same.
>> 
>No, that's not true.They are violating our license and noone really cares.
>It is known to OSM since January and MS admitted it.
>
>RichardF wrote that there was no contact to MS .......although they violate
>out license.
>The issue was adressed in German media at a press conference with the
>Federal Government and it became public. 
>
>So they are not the same as anyone else. Other companies have been added
>faster to the Hall of Shame of the License Working Group
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