I'll happily boycott that for-profit company which is masquerading as a public utility, but charging money and going after anyone who reverse engineers what words are what locations.
This is exactly the sort of thing that shouldn't be a private company, just like Lat/Lon coordinates and street addresses are effectively public domain, any suitable replacement for lat/lon should also be public domain.
I'll happily boycott that for-profit company which is masquerading as a public utility, but charging money and going after anyone who reverse engineers what words are what locations.
See also the comments in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27058271
This is exactly the sort of thing that shouldn't be a private company, just like Lat/Lon coordinates and street addresses are effectively public domain, any suitable replacement for lat/lon should also be public domain.