The closing session of Wherecamp skews out to a conversation of the big three companies within geospace perhaps killing the ecosystem of development. Despite being hosted at Google's HQ, there's a no holds barred "you kill kittens" approach to trying to get thef frustration noticed. Comparisons to Wal*Mart seem abound.
One thing related to an earlier post, however, was the fact that Microsoft have a little better model for funding external development teams - something that enhances the profile of a large company, gives them a product and also pumps money around the community. Let the BBC move towards this, please - there's some brilliant community-driven sites out there that need money and perhaps won't ever make a profit.
Broken record, though we're way behind in a lot of spaces and need to get some outside involvement (and put some money out there) for the future of bbc.co.uk. Time for a team-call of interested parties methinks!
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