Hi Maria, Thanks for the thoughts. See my sudo responses inline . . . I'm using this thread as a practice round of discussion . . .
> > > > "Open Source software enforces standards" > > > In my experience (maybe because I don't discuss this with people > who know much about the subject so they have very basic opinions), > they usually come with: > > * Standars aren't the better format to work with The above seems like the hardest to respond to. > * Propietary standards can be more efficient because they are > optimized for the propietary software My response would be as long as the proprietary package can export in a standard form/format. > * We already have the information on the propietary format and > don't want to migrate Same as above. Again not trying to preclude proprietary, but more to make things interoperable and standard. > > And, of course: > * Our propietary solution also works with standards (this is very > tricky to fight against) So prove it, connect to these standard datasets (NOW!) :c) Again, thanks for your thoughts here. Bobb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
