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Re:Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014) by ForHackernews on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:49PM (#9306325)
All that does is prevent Google from slurping OSM into Google Maps and not giving anything back. I don't see how it prevents it from being "usable and useful". If anything, it makes it more useful because if everyone contributes to OSM, it means we're not constantly reduplicating effort.
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Re:Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014) by forrestthewoods on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:58PM (#9306393)
Like I said, it's the same debate as GPL vs MIT which has been had on the Internet a million times.
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Re:Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014) by psykovsky on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:45PM (#9306746)
Symbiotic vs Parasitic describes it better.
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Re:Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014) by forrestthewoods on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:02PM (#9306866)
A million and one.
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