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3mo ago

Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork - HN

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3mo ago

Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork - HN

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If I'm reading this correctly, the headline is...very inaccurate.
It looks like a dispute between two developers in Organic Maps, who both started out at Maps.me, specifically over whether their CDN redirector should be public or private.
- It's one of the reasons I linked the hn discussion. Lots of accusations going around right now. It's unfortunate as I like that app, but this kind of splitting is important to know about.
  
  My experience with HN is comments from out-of-touch engineers and me-too startup folks circle jerking with themselves. Can't say they're any better than the random discourse on social media.
  
  So, what's the point of Organic Maps or maps.me? The latter's website just say "download and prepare for adventure", like some sort of app for route preparation?
- Looks like the dispute is with one of the devs who didn't work on maps.me.
  Regardless, it's probably best to wait until the dust settles to see what the facts are.

Sad, but also funny to see someone revoke an MIT license. Presumably they think that is retroactive as why do it otherwise. Instead of preventing use they just un-invite themselves from any group that wishes to continue it's open source development.
- Wow, that's an incredible misunderstanding of copyright. Screw 'em.
  Organic Maps rocks. Maybe I'll go donate.
  Edit: Read a bit of the discussion and it seems this is 100% Organic Maps, Maps.me is unrelated. I'll hold off until the drama revolves.

Seems like some spicy drama. I'll check back in a few days to see how it resolves. I love Organic Maps and I hope the core team resolves this appropriately.

I used maps.me for many years, it's sad what happened. At least we have organic maps.

See also https://aussie.zone/post/15854596
- https://lemmyverse.link/aussie.zone/post/15854596 to stay on your home instance.
  
  Sometimes I wish lemmy/fediverse had an option to detect if something was on the fedi and give you the option to direct link. Would make it nicer to vote/follow.
  
  In Eternity, my link works and opens in the app while the lemmyverse.link 'cannot be resolved'.
  
  Much like the other user, the instance link works for me and keeps me local, but the lemmy verse link takes me to that instance.
  
  Now THAT is a cool feditool!
  
  I don't understand how lemmy and fedi apps in general still have this problem, they never seem to be able to recognize a link and just show it on my home instance.

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