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"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I'm contributing to openstreetmap because I think there should be a free alternative to Google or Apple maps.

Am I running the risk of having my contributions stolen?

[–] Sightline@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mapbox sells your work for a profit.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

OSM is the best kind of Open Source.

It CAN be used in commercial products, but any contributions to OSM from those commercial enterprises is still open, so you end up with commercial users contributing to the open system.

I'm in charge of GIS for a city that uses and contributes to OSM and QGIS.

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