On 12/14/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14/12/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
I say get behind World Wind and/or some other
free software. Make it
a point to *not* support Google Earth. That's worth more in my
opinion.
Perhaps a more pragmatic point: Google Earth came up to us and said
"hey, we'd like to do XYZ, do you object?" (or something along those
lines) This isn't us thinking "hey, be nice to do something like this,
let's pick Google as a partner" - it's a project approaching us, with
an idea they want to implement, for cooperation. Big conceptual
difference, to my mind at least, from us deciding to support one or
the other.
And more to the point, they could have done this without asking,
except for the use of the logo. Instead they were willing to negotiate
use of the logo, and have made an effort to be compliant like other
mirrors, following our own instructions for mirrors.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com