[Freegis-list] Gaia project interruped by Google

[Gary Watry]

Why don't you spend the time on building viewers that use free data.

Why build a viewer that access the data without using Google at all?

After all, Google is paying to access that data, why should anyone be 
allowed to access that data on Google's Dime?

If you want access to the data, go for it without using Google Applications

Is it because it is easier to reverse engineer something that someone 
else built that works than do it on your own?

I think GAIA did the right thing.

Or if you have to use Google Technology, get a copy of their API to 
build from.

> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:41:04PM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
>
>   
>> So what do we want?
>> The luxury of being able to browse the world with a proprietory client
>> software we have no control over using a service that might one day
>> start to cost money?
>> Or do we want to promote free software and free knowledge about it?
>>     
>
> If the cost of having a free client to their service is their
> service shutting up, I'm for taking it down.
> If google cares about that service he'll be first line pushing
> for freely available datasets.
>
> --strk;
>
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