2007/12/26, Miguel Montesinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi to everybody, > > - Alfonso Rubio (Top Manager at ESRI Spain): [2] "from an intellectual point > of view, I wonder that if free software is a software with freedom to be > modified at any time, that is just the opposite of guaranteeing that we are > able to work with standards, because any user, or even any implementation, > can modify it" > > - A. Rubio (ESRI) in a 2nd talk: [3] "it seems that standard support is less > guaranteed with free software from an intellectual point of view" > and finally: "a standard -in the end- is a boring thing" > > - Rubén Andreani (Top Manager at Intergraph Spain): [4] "How much does it > cost to make a software and to maintain it? There's a gossip which says that > a version of a GIS software costs around 100-200 million $ ... so, obviously > the software cannot be free (for *gratis*) because money has to come from > anywhere."
wow, Those guys are really into FUD. However, that is an _old_ FUD that has been dispelled in the las 5 years due to the enormous success achieved by free operating systems, and database engines. Also, ESRI Spain is shooting its own foot, as GDAL/OGR (and PROJ) is free software and built inside Arc*. cheers! -- Paulo Marcondes = PU1/PU2PIX -22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc Debian GNU/Linux = http://rj.debianbrasil.org = http://www.debian.org http://www.kombato.org - Seja seu próprio guarda-costas
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