Markus Lupp said: >Paul Ramsey schrieb: >>> Also, wasn't there a FOSS4G presentation about >>> consulting as a way to further FOSS GIS development >>> and make a living at it as well? >> >> Bit of a myth, as far as I can tell. This open source technology >> wedge is still so small that the business opportunities remain >> relatively tiny, particularly in North America, where the technology >> base is so homogenous and the mental lock-in to a vendor-led mentality >> so strong. >> >Not a myth in Europe (or to be more precise, at least in Germany). There >is a number of (growing) companies that have FOSS GIS consulting >business models and do pretty well.
I would say that in other european countries, FOSSGIS don't have so much presence as it happens in Germany. In Spain, there are a good number of companies making money out of FOSSGIS (maybe less than in Germany), but it's not the same (I think) in other countries like UK, Italy,.. Am I wrong? Paul Ramsey said: >"Everyone should drop their projects and work on uDig." But all the >gvSIG developers are supported by funding from Spanish government >that requires all the work be GPL; and they also prefer a pure Java >implementation to the SWT/Eclipse implementation that uDig uses. And >the OpenJUMP people have an existing rich set of editing tools that >are not easily portable to the uDig application model. Are they going >to throw away all their existing functionality to move to another >platform? Why? OpenJUMP works fine for them. I agree Paul. Diversity is richness. Every community may have its place under the sun. Otherwise, it's true that is a pity not sharing more resources on common tasks. Regarding gvSIG, GPL is a *must* for the project. Other things about technology (like Swing vs.SWT) are just decissions made in a moment under some constraints, and as all technical decissions, must be open to change if necessary. Regarding merges, I prefer some approaches like the case of openLayers and other WebMapping projects. I think that pure merges do not exist, it's usually a project taking over another one, or a project moving to a new one. And just a quote. 70% of gvSIG funding come from European Union, and they do not require a special license, it's a decission of the PSC. Oh, and I agree Andrea, fun is the only way to produce good software, and specially good open-source softwre. Regards, --------------------------------- Miguel Montesinos Technical Manager PRODEVELOP C/ Conde Salvatierra, 34 - 10 46004 Valencia. Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prodevelop.es <https://www.prodevelop.es/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.prodevelop.es> Tlf: +34 963510612 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss <http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss>
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