Viva Milan,
We do not pose limitation, we do not put barriers, we take them out !

Maxi

Il 24 feb 2025 07:41, "Antonovic P. Milan via Discuss" 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org> ha scritto:
Hello everyone. sorry but I completely disagree with you. Pushing a diverse and 
multicultural community to agree on a political point of view can lead to 
divisions, wasted time and distraction from OSGeo's real needs. Asking to "not 
be indifferent" is a well known polarizing technique. Attempts to oversimplify 
the complexity of reality without even trying to acknowledge that there are 
different opinions and interests, obstructs the pursuit of truth and 
disrespects those who value critical thinking.

I believe that the OSGeo Community shall focus on bringing our beautiful 
software to THE NEXT LEVEL and not playing the same games that are used by the 
"market economy or capitalism".

Let's find ways that have a real impact by concrete examples of openness, 
friendship and community!  Let's try to be better than them!

✊ Viva Open Source Software ✊
This is just my 2 cents point of view, don't take it personally..

Milan

For example 👇👇👇  @Luí­s Moreira de Sousa this attitude does not belong to the 
open source spirit

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Il giorno dom 23 feb 2025 alle ore 19:14 Luí­s Moreira de Sousa via Discuss 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>> ha scritto:
Dear Even,

when I was a child, the priest in our parish used to say that everything we do 
in life is political. I am not certain such direct confrontation is the best 
way to dissuade regular folk from voting for autocratic movements, but doing 
something is certainly better than doing nothing. The SpatiaLite project, for 
instance, is taking things even further [0]. If I am allowed to give advice on 
the matter, just be careful not to undermine a project for little influence on 
the public discourse.

Take care.

P.S.: as much as I am troubled with the cahos spawned by the US government, to 
what open source is concerned, the CRA still appears to me as the greatest 
challenge in the coming years.

[0] https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/index.html

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On Thursday, 20 February 2025 at 19:17, Even Rouault via Discuss 
<discuss@lists.osgeo.org<mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:

Hi,

I've started an activist campaign of open source projects want to join the 
protest against the US government stupid, cruel and dangerous politics that 
affect the whole world ?

I've initiated the move with GDAL (https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865 , 
with follow ups in https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11875, 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11876, 
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11877) , and also pushing for PROJ 
(https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/pull/4406) , MapServer 
(https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/7233) and GEOS 
(https://github.com/libgeos/geos/pull/1243) .

Anyone else ?

I don't agree that we should stay away from politics. Our projects only make 
sense in the context of a free society, and this freedom is at high stake. We 
have admittedly little power, but we can and should exercise it with the tools 
at our disposal. The addition of small little acts might end up having visible 
consequences.

Even

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