Re: Best of Breed
> Streetmap's real problems were that it had to charge because it was paying a hefty chunk of money to the OS in licensing fees
And there, sir, is exactly where the problem is.
Here in Europe traditionally we've been paying over and over again for the same things (maps, weather, road information, various bits of scientific data, etc., etc.) when in the US they would just dump the things on a web server and we're all welcome to help ourselves.
This has created a fabulous amount of business (offering real solutions, I might add) in the States, while we were effectively being boycotted here by our own governments.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
