On 14 October 2015 at 16:20, Barry Rowlingson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Sandro Santilli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The tone was "suprised" and "disappointed". >> >> Does advertising proprietary software solutions >> on OSGeo website count as "championing" for its cause ? >> I wouldn't expect that from my Open Source Compass. >> >> Or am I being misleaded by the lack of info on the net about >> the software names found on that osgeo page ? > > Proprietary software companies are big users of open source geo. Many > of them give back in different ways - some by developing open source > software alongside their proprietary code, some by patching and > contributing to community projects, and some by throwing money at us > [1].
Yes, indeed. It may be also worth to observe the differences between FOSS vs OSS, and that there is no mention of "Free" on the http://www.osgeo.org front page. Please, notice there is OSI, not FSF, logo on http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
