http://gcn.com/articles/2010/05/06/kemp-nasa-open-source.aspx
Not directly related to geospatial technology, but a number of memorable quotes: Developing with open source is important to the government, Kemp said, because it helps the government have an influence over emerging standards and to push commercial software providers into supporting features that benefit the government. ³We see a close correlation between the areas of new development where standards do not really exist and open-source development,² Kemp told the OGI audience.³Open-source development allows the federal government to adopt emerging standards, and to create a reference platform from standards work that's going on at NIST and various other standards bodies that are being coordinated by NIST.² -joel ---- Joel D. Schlagel U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
