A great interview with Linus (that guy who started linux) where he says:
Me, I just don’t care about proprietary software. It’s not “evil” or “immoral,” it just doesn’t matter. I think that Open Source can do better, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Source, but it’s not a crusade — it’s just a superior way of working together and generating code.
Lets rephrase that in the mapping context:
Me, I just don’t care about the Ordnance Survey. It’s not “evil” or “immoral,” it just doesn’t matter. I think that Open Maps can do better, and I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is by working on Open Maps, but it’s not a crusade — it’s just a superior way of working together and generating maps.
There’s a few people contributing to opengeodata.org now (as far as I can make out) – could you start posting with different accounts and let us all know who is saying what?
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