We - ourselves.
Asking this question is taking the volunteer spirit away by implying that someone is “stealing” your work. Its not the case. And i think that goes into the completely wrong direction - killing our spirit.
The Mindset of Open Source/Free Software or liberal licenses was about freeing the world from restrictions. And by restrictions i do not talk about economical ones, but usage, maintainance etc. Its a state of mind. Freedom.
And i would like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Here etc use OpenStreetmap everywhere.
The point is: We have lived with bad/broken/outdated Map data for too long. And we dont have control what data is used where. So with Openstreetmap we make an offering with no strings attached (For me ODbL attaches to many strings - but YMMV). A maintained map - mostly by volunteers today, maybe paid tomorrow. And now you have the choice. Pay for commercial data, or use OSM. But you have a choice. FreeBSD, Linux, Open Source as a system was about offering you a choice. Take it or leave it.
And with all the big players stepping in we are still upholding our goal. Offering a choice. OSM is the biggest collaboration hub for map data. And i find it fascinating to see TomTom, Microsoft, Apple fixing up Map Data in colaboration where before everyone had to fix their own problems. They are working on the very same map data - together.
Going back into Linuxes history you’ll see that back in 1994 (When i started with linux) everything was volunteerly driven. When you look into commit statistics for the kernel releases today the vast majority of contributions are coming from commercial players. Has it killed Linux? No it hasnt. Linux is the largest colaboration hub for an Operating System.
So IMHO - Relax.
Flo