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In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users (organicmaps.app)

submitted 10 months ago by redd@discuss.tchncs.de to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

But this is a well-trodden philosophical debate.

Competition can also be a waste of resources. What if all the effort put into OM were put into Osmand, which already exists? Then we might get one amazing app instead of two okay ones.

You'll say that FOSS is different from commercial, that everyone is doing it from passion, etc. True, but sometimes narcissism is a factor too. Maybe not here, but sometimes. And the FOSS ethic should really be cooperation before competition, after all.

Too simple to say that competition is good.