Re:Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap
by ajross on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @06:08PM
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Given that people vandalize crowd-source databases every day for shits and giggles; yes, pretty much exactly that. The linked message seems to imply that vandalism is a fairly routine thing even for OSM, so I'm not seeing where you get that "No one vandalizes OSM" bit from.
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Re:Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap
by puranjay on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @06:29PM
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And yes, it is a massive coincidence that the vandals share the same IP address as the people who sabotaged Mocality, isn't it? Industrious workers, aren't they?
Stop defending what cannot be defended.
Re:Google contractors sacked after vandalizing OpenStreetMap
by ajross on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @07:00PM
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OK, I'll bite. I'm not "defending" anything really. This was bad behavior. I'm saying that asserting based on the existing evidence that this is some sort of "conspiracy" on the part of Google is, well, borderline insane. It just doesn't add up, sorry. The cost/benefit sides of the equation are all out of whack. The purported implementation is just plain dumb.
The only way to get to your "cannot be defended" conclusion is to start from a "I hate Google" position and color the evidence as you read it. So let me guess: you're an iOS nut, right? :)