[OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Fri Feb 1 16:14:23 GMT 2013


Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> Why is Openstreetmap yielding to such blatant appropriation of 
> the English language ?

Because we have bigger battles to fight. Let Google piss their money away on
defending the term "geocode". If OSM has $1m to spend, which it doesn't, I'd
rather it spent it on making the site easier to use and attracting more
mappers, rather than throwing lawyers at a trademark troll.

cheers
Richard





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