Hello, I throw out a question some people are debating in Spain [1 (only Spanish)]. Sextante has the intention (or at least have thought about it) of building bindings so that it can be used from proprietary applications, like ArcGIS.
1) Do you think that it may avoid proprietary users to migrate to open solutions, as they can benefit of open-source libraries under their proprietary software? Besides, this give arguments to proprietary manufacturers because of the weakness of open-source software needing to run on top of proprietary ones, or to sell out their compatibility with FOSS4G. 2) Do you think that it may lead proprietary users to try out and migrate to open source solutions due to the good impression they can have after using FOSS4G? Besides, this could generate incomes to improve FOSS4G developments, and offer alternatives to proprietary extensions, drivers, ... What is your oppinion about this tricky question? Best, [1] http://sextantegis.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------- Miguel Montesinos CTO PRODEVELOP, S.L. mmontesinos [at] prodevelop [dot] es www.prodevelop.es _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
