[OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

Giving the world a point of Access to OSM, like the OSMF, BoD,
and whatever steering committee, group or other entity,
give outsiders the idea that OSMF owns OSM, which is not true,
By obeying such request without objections 
we give others the idea that we are defenseless.
Instead OSMF should have replied that  it's not OSMF that owns
 OSM, (send a copy of the OSMF statutes with it),
and that they should address their complaints elsewhere.

If you own (or think that you own) a multi million
worth asset such as usable map of the world, and
think you can manage that without the financial means
to defend it, one must have a simplified and naïve vision
of the outside world.
I am sure this is the first small incident, and it will
be followed by a number of other hyena's that smell money.

OSMF, if it wants to continue to function as a self-instated
owner of OSM, will have to get the funds to defend itself.

Gert Gremmen


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Michael Buege [mailto:michael at buegehome.de] 
Verzonden: zondag 3 februari 2013 11:55
Aan: talk at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

Am 03.02.2013 09:57, schrieb Robin Paulson:
> On 2013-02-03 07:41, Jeff Meyer wrote:
>> was: geocoding trademark thread
>>
>> I think Paweł has hit on a key question: does the OSMF have plans to
>> operate and lead OSM in a more efficient, organized manner or not?
>
> what makes you think anyone wants to be lead, i certainly don't? or
> wants to be organised from above? we're all fully functional human
> beings, perfectly capable of organising ourselves, and doing a damn good
> job so far - look at where OSM and most other digital commons projects
> have got through self-organising.
>
> i disagree with any idea of a board, i think it's utterly wrong, it
> reduces a community of thousands to the views a handful of people can
> put across.
>

Thank you, Robin.
Reading this is the sugar in my Sunday morning coffee and gives me back 
a lot of hope still to be a part of a free and open project.


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