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The original was posted on /r/comics by /u/stabbyclaus on 2025-04-26 09:57:33+00:00.

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We welcome and appreciate the conflict mediation effort by the NLnet foundation (who have also provided grants to Organic Maps before).

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There is no answer to the Letter by Alexander Borsuk @biodranik.

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Roman Tsisyk @rtsisyk has published his answer in team Zulip chat, please read a copy #10555 (comment). He proposes to bring Organic Maps under an established non-profit umbrella organization like the Software Freedom Conservancy or Software in the Public Interest. We welcome this move as we made the same suggestion in the Letter, and we've been considering non-profit umbrellas as a "home" for a potential community fork. So we will gladly join a working group Roman has suggested to form as a first step.

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Viktor Govako @vng has posted his answer in the Organic Maps Telegram chat (https://t.me/organicmaps/52328):

  • Roman took away my access to all key resources of Organic Maps without my consent and refused to return it back. Github blocking in March was also a result of his actions.
  • I decided that I will no longer work with Roman in any format.
  • Roman offered to buy out his share in Organic Maps OÜ so that he could leave the OM project.
  • The offer to buy out the shares was sent to Roman's lawyer three weeks ago. I have not received any clear response or counter-offer yet.
  • I had a conversation with NLNet where they offered to help in this situation. I will not refuse the idea of non-profit or some hybrid if it helps to conclude a “divorce” deal with Roman.

In addition Viktor has made some statements in the Russian-speaking OM Telegram chat, some of which we find significant (from https://t.me/OrganicMapsRu/78976 and onwards):
"Organic Maps now is a commercial company with an open source project" and its been like that since the company's inception and from Viktor's point of view the single mention of the Organic Maps OÜ name in the organicmaps.app website footer is enough information to convey the commercial nature of the project to the contributors.

Also Viktor has disclosed some more details about donations spending over past years (https://t.me/OrganicMapsRu/78745) and now there is an agreement both from Viktor and Roman to disclose full historic financial details to a few select community contributors. We welcome this first step towards financial transparency!

Unfortunately, Viktor's answer concerns itself with the state of his conflict with Roman but it doesn't really acknowledge or address concerns and questions raised in the Letter.

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We hope that Viktor accepts a proposition to change Organic Maps to a non-profit organization and that words will turn into real actions without undue delay.

In the meantime we will continue community fork preparations, as our community deserves an actively-developed app not stalled by disagreements and uncertain negotiations. Even if/when the fork is launched it won't close the door for negotiations and cooperation, e.g. we may decide to rejoin Organic Maps if it implements compatible principles and policies eventually. Alternatively, we would be happy to accept transfers of Organic Maps assets/branding rights to the community fork.

We'll post an update on the state and details of the fork shortly as well as any new developments in negotiations.

P.S. there is a fake signatures attack on the Letter. More than 14,000 fake signatures were added in a very short time by an unknown party, all of them unverified and hence not listed. We also unfortunately have no way to edit or remove spammy/abusive signatures. As of this update there were 179 verified signatures (thank you!).

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Hundreds of people have been injured following a massive explosion and fire at the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, more than 1,000km (620 miles) south of capital Tehran, according to officials and state media.

Iran’s state media on Saturday reported a “massive explosion” at Shahid Rajaee, the country’s largest commercial port located in Hormozgan province on Iran’s southern coast.

Iranian state television said initial reports indicate negligence in the storage of flammable materials at the site. In May 2020, Israel was accused of launching a major cyberattack on the same port, causing transport chaos for days after crashing the facility’s computer system.

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The party, which has been classified in some quarters as being securely on the extreme right, climbed to 26% approval in the Sunday poll conducted by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL/ntv. In the Bundestag elections, the party had received 20.8% of the vote.

It is closely followed by the CDU/CSU, which is still below its result in the general election (28.5%) with a current 25%. The SPD achieved 15 percent (16.4 percent) in the Forsa survey. The Greens are virtually unchanged at 11% (11.6%), while the Left Party is at 9% (8.8%). The FDP and BSW both achieve four percent.

If federal elections were held on Sunday, the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats would no longer have a majority. They had negotiated a coalition agreement after the election, which now needs to be ratified. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag on May 6.

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Massive @[email protected] presence at #Grazer @linuxtage today 😎
Info booth with lots of different #SteamDeck and other devices, and an impromptu hacking corner 😅

@[email protected]

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The original was posted on /r/Superstonk by /u/saiboru on 2025-04-26 11:18:59+00:00.

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Also hat man mit dem Traum die Förderung von wirksamen Klimaschutz mal eben um sieben Jahre verschleppt.

Und nun stelle ich die Frage: Ist die jahrelange bewußte Verschleppung von Klimaschutz, die letztlich Millionen von Menschen ganz eindeutig vorhersehbar das Leben kosten wird, nicht ebenso Gewalt wie z.B. die Entlaubung von Wäldern mit Agent Orange?

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Offenbar steht der nordkoreanische Diktator vor einem Putsch durch hochrangige Gefolgsleute. Es wäre das Ende einer Familiendynastie. Sollte der Coup gelingen, hätte dies dramatische Auswirkungen auf das Bündnissystem in Ostasien.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/MarzipanBackground91 on 2025-04-26 13:25:26+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2025-04-26 13:14:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL The Postman (1997) clocks in at 177 minutes, and despite two test screenings that ended in a negative reception, director Kevin Costner refused to trim down its runtime. He also funded most of The Postman's $80 million budget himself. Its box office receipts totaled around $20 million.

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 on 2025-04-26 12:37:45+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that the endangered stream tree frog (Hyloscirtus princecharlesi) was named after Prince Charles in 2012, recognising the then-Prince's work advocating rainforest conservation. This earned him the nickname "the Frog Prince."

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/GuitarHenry on 2025-04-26 11:09:47+00:00.

Original Title: TIL in the original 1977 Star Wars the Death Star countdown for destroying Yavin 4 (the big threat in the trench run scene) was not in the shooting script, but was created during an edit by Marcia Lucas to add more tension. It was achieved using voiceovers, re-purposed shots, and inserts.

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The Israeli military is using so-called suicide drones—highly precise attack drones—in strikes on displacement camps in Gaza that have killed at least 30 Palestinians, including 14 children, according to photos, videos, and eyewitness testimony obtained by Drop Site News.

In at least five separate strikes over the past week, including one in Jabaliya refugee camp, one in Beit Lahia, and three on families sheltering in Mawasi Khan Younis, Israel deployed attack drones called SkyStrikers, which are manufactured by Elbit Systems, the largest private defense contractor in Israel.

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