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Re:Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest tec... by mullingitover on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:45PM (#25575995)
Man, this is a bad take. It makes passing mention of Google, ignoring the herd of elephants in the room. Google effectively did a bunch of dumping for years to grab market share, and the second they felt like they had it locked up they started turning the screws. No mention of that. I honestly can't tell if this is astroturfing or if the author is oblivious.

A bunch of companies contributing to a shared maps service is about as scary as a bunch of companies contributing to the linux kernel.

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Re:Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest tec... by ldng on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:19PM (#25584328)
Because OSM does not actually need to care about Google ?
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Re:Unholy alliance of the world’s largest and wealthiest tec... by mullingitover on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:22PM (#25588037)
Pretty likely that the reason OSM is getting all this attention is because Google opened themselves to competition when they started (rationally) price gouging like there wasn't any.
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