Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:28:20PM +0200, Cédric Moullet wrote:
I'm sorry (and unhappy) to say that the
GIS leaders (ESRI, Autdoesk, Intergraph etc...) don't see OSGEO has an
important contradictor: from my point of view, this is what needs to be
changed in the next 5 years.
If someone wants to compete with ESRI -- that's fine. We should
support them insofar as we can with community resources, shared userbases,
and feedback. But it is not the job of OSGeo to make these projects
successful -- only to help them succeed based on their own efforts.
Especially, when one or two of the mentioned companies have supported
OSGeo Foundation a lot.
A holy war is something that should be avoided at most. It should not be
about how to compete and win the market, but about how to effectively
collaborate in wide range of areas.
Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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