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Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly

Overture Maps Foundation wants to end the oppressive rule of the Google Maps API.

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Having competition/alternative is better for all, but it will be hard to break that monopoly much like Google Search

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