Miguel Montesinos wrote: >> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Dave Patton >> Enviado el: sáb 18/10/2008 18:22 >> Para: OSGeo Discussions >> Asunto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ESRI Spain conference incident >> >> > >> On 2008/10/17 12:15 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: >>> Hi All, I resend this mail to OSGeo discuss because I think is a >>> serious incident that cannot be obviated and shows how things are >>> getting at least in Spanish market. >>> As Alvaro says, why they have this behavior with his colleagues? Maybe >>> they fear FOSS companies? >>> >>> Anyway, all of you are invited to the gvSIG conf, even to discuss, >>> it's free in both senses ;) >> ESRI was a sponsor at FOSS4G 2007, and had a Lab. >> Who knows, maybe they will be involved somehow in >> FOSS4G 2009(for sure they won't be excluded just >> because they are viewed as competition for FOSS). > > "Viewed as competition for FOSS" -> Well, they say (I asked about it at > ESRI's booth during both FOSS4G 2007 & 2008) that they have made some > contributions to open-source, as the openness of shapefile format or offering > WMS servers. :-D > > >> Perhaps they can have a booth in the exhibition >> (and maybe gvSIG wants to have a booth right next >> to the ESRI booth ;-) > > For sure FOSS4G ESRI's attendees are much more polite (and clever) than their > Spanish collegues. > > Maybe it would be wiser to make a request for a booth in the world annual > ESRI's conference (I don't know nor want to, the exact name). Would they > admit a FOSS4G booth (it doesn't matter which project could be) as we make at > FOSS4G? It would be funny to see an OSGeo booth showing the integration > capabilities of OSGeo projects against ESRI closed products, or even a > comparison. > If we called it a Proj,Python,OGC booth they'd have a hard time saying no considering their inclusion of said products/standards in their application.
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