That isn't really fair and some of the the issues it brings up are real.
Frankly the adding POIs I find a bit confusing. Some people will outline the building and or parking lot while others do not. I have added some POIs myself but I found it a bit limited. I found no way to add a phone number to a POI or a website which seems a bit silly. IMHO I think OSM should create a FourSquare type app for check ins and work hard to encourage local businesses to add themselves as POIs. In fact a local business POI could be a source of revenue for OSM as well as data.
The other issue is that OSM uses the Wikipedia style of Open vs the Linux style of Open. While anybody can can take the Linux source and fork it if you want to add code to Linux you have to get your changes approved. On OSM just about anyone has commit privileges Nothing stops me from creating a fake account and trashing the data with bad info. Sure it will get fixed but it will take time.
Finally paying people to work on a project can produce a more complete data set. Some things are really hard and have a limited market. For those areas FOSS just doesn't work all that well. A good example is 3d Cad. None of the 3D programs really compete with SolidWorks, ProE, and Autodesk's products. The same is true right now for mapping.
Go to Enterprise Or on open street map and on Google maps. Which has more street names? Which has more POIs?
I really like OSM and think that more people should support it but TomToms comments are true. You will get a better, more complete map from them than OSM for not much money.
Now if we could get local states, towns, and other entities to start adding data to OSM than that could change but with just people like me adding POIs from memory when we feel like it... Well not likely.
And just for the record Google maps can also have bad data in them. Thing is that they have more data to start with.

But you can charge them income tax.

It's all about priorities.

Affirmative action isn't intended to fix discrimination. Affirmative action is intended to fix the income gap caused by past discrimination. Fix that, and neighborhoods will integrate because the only way left to legally discriminate against anyone is via wealth. With integrated neighborhoods and (mostly) integrated schools and playmates, discrimination will (mostly) die away for that generation.

My house, I just bought, was built in the 1940s. The filed covenants are pretty rudimentary from modern standards - can't subdivide, house must be at least 750 sq ft and worth at least $9000 - but still in the paperwork I was given is the restriction that "negros and other non-whites" can't own or live on the property - except as a servant.

In the 40s, simply no one wanted to allow blacks to live anywhere but on the east side of town. Later when such covenants were voided, income disparity kept it that way. And with income disparity comes less time with parents/grandparents at home to help newborns get the jump start they need in education. Now the state closes schools that don't perform well - you guess it, in the "traditionally black" areas - so those kids end up getting bussed around further. Obviously there are some people so naturally gifted that they can succeed in any situation, and those people have "escaped" this cycle and do fine. But on average I don't think we've evened things up from institutional discrimination yet, so we still have to keep pushing on things to get them aligned.

The people who wrote and signed those original covenants are long dead and buried; not buying the house from its Nth owner because of that would have been pointless.

Also I'm posting to fix a mistaken moderation elsewhere in the thread.

Unless you propose to do away with non-cash payment methods, then every merchant that accepts credit will always price their products to cover those fees.

That means that all the people out there who continue to pay for things with cash subsidize those of us that use cards with cash-back programs. I get about half that "haircut" in checks in the mail and free hotels and airfare, and I run anything I can through credit cards that I pay off with no interest.

You seem to think there may be some connection between those two things.

Be seeing you in about a year. Have fun.

It's just terminology. Actually it's pretty similar to CSD or Conventional Subdivision Design, the term used for the car-only big-lawn suburban sprawl method of residential planning that - you guessed it - has only been around for 60-70 years or so.

IMO, the term "conventional" stands for "whatever most baby boomers prefer or accept". See also http://xkcd.com/988/.

Nothing about the DMCA was untrue - she was using his photo without permission. There's nothing in the law about knowing the consequences. In truth the consequences he disliked are GoDaddy's fault, not his, since they are the ones that pull down every site owned by an account if any one of them receive a DMCA notice for any content.

It doesn't seem like he did anything wrong, whatsoever.

I did a film researcher is making the claim that it is "propaganda". I promise you that no where in that manual is the word propaganda is used. That film researcher doesn't know that the word means. Not only that but odds are he is allowing an anti military bias to color his statement leading to that error. To imply that this is propaganda is to further compound the error.