HI, On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Andrea Giacomelli <[email protected]> wrote: > A simple way of getting the number is simply checking the revenue of the key > companies involved in the business.
I can't agree with this. That can work on closed software environment, but on free libre software it is much more complicated. As a start: what is a "key" company? A big one? Like Red Hat? I doubt that we have anything like that on geospatial software. We have companies involved with OSGEO in several degrees, but I don't think that we have a small group of companies that represents all the osgeo world. The reason is very simple: there are a lot of medium and small companies working with OSGEO software. Companies that you may never hear about, even if you are very active here or on the conferences, because they focus on the development and not on the community. Also, there are a lot of other companies that combine close and free software. How do you calculate revenue there? In my opionion, if you really want something like this, I guess that you will have to invest a lot of time studying the market, asking hundreds of companies to get a more or less good estimate. Regards, María. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
