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I prefer to skip the watered-down PR-speak, if you don't mind.

Humans have different reactions. The way OSM is reacted is very much how I personally would react. That’s why it doesn’t seem the least bit fake or watered down to me.

I guess if you are angered easily you might not understand how OSM could react that way, but please understand that just because you personally wouldn’t react that way doesn’t make it fake, not human or PR speak.

Humans really react and talk that way. It’s perfectly normal.

I guess if you are angered easily you might not understand how OSM could react that way,

I wasn't responding to the whole of the OSM post, just the two excerpts that sdfjkl quoted. I saw his comment before reading the OSM post and it just didn't sound genuine to me. The amount of times I've heard "we look forward to..." in a grinfucking [1] compared to relatively light use elsewhere has made that phrase trigger my "be exceptionally wary of what comes next" alarm.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3551715

Probably I was duped, but I didn't read the OSM statement as watered down PR at all, but rather as a reasonable human reaction to such a high-profile use of their labor of love with an unfortunate caveat - maybe sufficiently advanced PR speak is indistinguishable from genuine human interaction.

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