@cmoffroad I think you need to breathe a little, and calm down.
- Remember it was me who originally got Grab to stop doing their first batch edits by getting someone from Techcrunch to take notice and flew to CM on my own expense to have a meeting to try to hash things out as well as penned this rebuttal to their PR. Also if you do a search on duckduckgo for the keywoards Grab and OSM, two of the posts in top five is either techcrunch or another post where I called out Grab for using OSM data without attribution.
I think you’ll also find most of my correspondence with Grab have been public and documented in the forum.
So you’re welcome to question anything including my integrity or shoe size, that’s the point of a disclosure.
- The previous head of mapping didn’t follow through with their commitments, and it was quite a let down. However the present head of mapping, Jinal, has displayed a tremendous amount of care, which is why I am willing to work with her. The community may ultimately decide to ban Grab from edits in Thailand, I think that’s ok too, I shall continue to make my case that Grab’s contribution can be an opportunity.
The question of corporate contributions to open source has been an issue for 30 years, Linus also constantly slams contributors of bad corporate patches.
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I’m not sure what you mean by a community moderator, I’m a volunteer forum moderator and other than the proposals you made privately to me, the only complaints or request for moderation I’ve ever received has been in regards to Russ and his colourful language describing Grab mappers, which I thought was reasonably justified.
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You seem to have put a bunch of facts together and strung them up in a manner that serves your purpose, which is useful if you’re into politics, or trying to score points in a playground. But as technology enthusiasts, I propose we should be more focused on having a rational debate.