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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
Navteq map on their own. Google is a licensee of TeleAtlas (TomTom). This costs Google money, and also the EULA of Google Maps disallows certain usages.
I think the point he was making was, as the most successful open-source businesses will point out, that the money is in the services and support, not in the binary software. Had Nokia led the charge with open-sourcing the Wayfinder app that used their pay-for services, that same app might have ended up spilling onto Android and the desktop/laptops and other platforms -- heck, maybe even have been included in Linux distributions, such that it might have headed off what Google has shown to understand better than Nokia does.
 

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