This is a well-written and seemingly comprehensive article, right on topic! Anyone reading this thread likely benefits by reading it, whether you agree with it or not. (Though, it does try to “stick to facts,” largely speaking, and that is my quick opinion).
An excerpt:
The problem with this whole system is that it is based on OpenStreetMap. A million people with whom it is impossible to negotiate, and a stupid data format. The OSM Foundation is unaccountable volunteers, the same can be said about the Council. No one knows what they want or what their plans are. No one expects them to do something useful to anyone other than the editors (although it’s sad). The whole system is extremely antagonistic. That’s why the Overture Foundation emerged.
Along with some amusing Russian-to-English translations (“Believe the Foundation’s statements: they really want to make a new potato basis available to anyone”), it purports to be a blueprint for the often-worried-about hand-wringing regarding all that is wrong with the OSMF and how “it will be assimilated.” (A reference to the “Borg,” a Star Trek, fictional, star-sized, hive-mind / AI which “eats good people”).
Check it out. The link is clean and many browsers offer in-browser translation.