On 12/14/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/12/06, Anthony wikilegal@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.