ESRI has a history of tightly controlling its conferences. I've
attended the paid conference in San Diego on several occasions and
have had papers turned down with no explanation. It was obvious that
someone considered the topic competitive to ESRI products. Even when
the papers were written emphasizing how software worked with ESRI
solutions - it was obvious that they considered it competition and
turned it down.
There is always a silver lining. Obviously, gvSig has risen to the
point that it is considered a threat to ESRI products and sales. Keep
up the good work!
Finally, it is refreshing to notice the contrast between proprietary
conferences and open source events - aggressive competition and
criticism of other products vs collaboration.
Mark
On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:09 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
The ESRI user conference is gratis, but you need to register yourself
and receive confirmation of the organisation. Some of that people
went
to Madrid from Valencia, so they lost (or not, it depends how you see
that) their work day and that's money of course.
I certainly would still have kicked up a stink to get back the cost
of travelling over 200 miles ;)
Heck - I think they should do that anyway?
The organisers had obviously decided beforehand to exclude these
people so it WOULD have been polite to save them cost of travelling
BUT they obviously decided simply to annoy? It certainly does not
earn ESRI any 'brownie points' being so arrogant, but then again
their lawyers have probably sown up every loose end in the small
print so they will just have to put up with bad press :)
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