<div dir="ltr">Puneet --<br><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
> If you want to point at a company as being the Evil Empire these days, you'd be more accurate pointing at Apple (cancelling licenses for Mac clones, suicides at Foxconn, restrictions on getting apps on iTunes, removing fitness tracker products from their stores because they might compete with the Apple Watch, etc. -- do a search for "apple anti competitive practices")<br>
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</span>You were doing fine until above. The rest of your post is indeed very relevant and useful and argues correctly for sanity instead of knee-jerk accusations (until the above assertions, of course).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A valid point -- I should have left that out (and almost did delete it) and kept it positive.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The point is, there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech bashing going on, and it is getting to be tiring.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ah, yes.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Let's stick to keeping OSGeo a fun, useful champion of free and open geospatial without becoming anti-anything-free, partisan and possibly irrelevant.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>^^ This ^^ ;-)<br><br></div><div>Massimiliano --<br></div><div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">You misunderstood or probably i didn't explained myself.
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><p dir="ltr">I'm not against any proprietary software or company. I use google and agree to accept their term of use.</p></blockquote><div>Ok. It sounded like accusations against those companies. The main point was that MailChimp did not do anything mysterious or underhanded. Suggestion for future: Just ask "how did I get on these lists" (or whatever), and you'll get the answer without the Sturm und Drang. :D<br><br></div><div>-- Pat <br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>