• TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Admittedly I only read this open letter and so am still too out-of-the-loop to say if Organic Maps is in the wrong here. Still, it seems like a sizable and competent enough fork that my initial bias is against Organic Maps.

    • digitalFatteh@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      2 days ago

      “Profit off the free contributions to inflate shareholder value” is about the gist of it from what was summarized. Might hold off checking this out if that’s the case.

      • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        20·
        2 days ago

        For clarification, Organic Maps was the project that has been accused of mismanagement. A significant portion of that community departed to create this app, CoMaps. The goal from the outset was to create a more transparent and open community, hence the name, community maps or CoMaps.

        CoMaps is a fairly recent fork of what was already an excellent app, but likely with poor management ethics behind it. I’ve been extremely impressed by the rapid pace of development on a pretty sizable project. There are already hundreds of small (and a few not so small) improvements over the project it was forked from.

    • Harry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 days ago

      sigh

      Sake. Can every bloody FOSS project stop falling out with itself and fighting with each other?

      • infeeeee@lemmy.zipEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        This was the second time, so it wasn’t really unexpected. Maps.me was foss, then they sold it, and the original devs forked it after the sale, that’s how Organic Maps came to life. They started to sell out AGAIN, but now different devs forked it before it could have been sold. Current version of Organic Maps already contains some ads.