Real Neo1973 photo / Neo delayed...!?

Jeroen Dekkers jeroen at vrijschrift.org
Fri Jan 12 00:52:00 CET 2007


At Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:16:48 +0100,
Fabian Off wrote:
> 
> Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 00:01 schrieb Sean Moss-Pultz:
> > If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data
> > and see if we can support an open source mapping engineer. Is this something
> > people would pay for?
> > 
> > -Sean
> 
> Of course they would do so.
> Everybody who's paying 350$ for an open-source
> phone knows about opensource and it's meaning.
> So he (or even she) will understand that costs aren't
> for the software itself, but for the mapping data.
> And then he'll pay for that, just like for maps for
> car-navigation-systems or something like that.

Or he will create open source mapping data:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ ;-)

Jeroen Dekkers




More information about the community mailing list