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All donations from Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon to @openstreetmap should be compared to their $3 mln annual Overture Maps membership fees.
(and also to non-profit donations lol, how crazy is that a German fund donated more than a trans-national corporation)
Here I should commend OSMF for using some of the donated money to actually create jobs though. Good start!
@zverik Seznam's sponsorship to OSMF is €6k which is also disproportionate to their multimillion map business. But until a month ago they hadn't been sponsors at all, so at least something.
@martinkroul @zverik yeah, it isn't much, but I understand it's difficult to advocate for it in the company because AFAIK Mapy.cz itself is still a losing business for Seznam.
@sesivany @martinkroul Maps are never a profitable business, even for Google.
@zverik I've checked the Overture website and it is unclear how their funding is used in relation to OSM.
HackW/E@LinuxHotel 
@zverik @openstreetmap the $3 million is without costs for the tech staff they are, afaik, obliged to supply.
The "issue" with the prototype fund grants that they are tied to specific roles/activities, which dare I say so, shouldn't be hi prio and which I wouldn't be spending any money on if anybody asked me (which nobody is doing :-)) at this point in time.
I would work on the reasons why we are being eaten alive by the @linuxfoundation
Software literally isn't the problem.
@weeklyOSM @zverik @openstreetmap I'm not critiquing the @PrototypeFund it simply funds what it is designed to fund, and that is not business development.
@zverik a big difference is that Overture wants funding and knows how to ask for it while @openstreetmap community members are very divided on this subject, only occasionally and reluctantly admitting that having a full time tech staff member might be a good idea