Re: [MI-L] Open Source Donation

[Bob Young]

Hi Ian   Bill beat me to it! The link Bill has given contains a lot more information than the article I read.   As Bill said, its very interesting, particularly the comments on "government and consumer applications". Its almost a mirror image of the Oracle approach which charges customers for storing their own data !!   Food for thought...   Regards   Bob   ----- Original Message ----- From: SCISOFT To: 'Bob Young' ; mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:42 PM Subject: RE: [MI-L] Open Source Donation Bob, that’s very interesting. Can you point me to the URL? IL Thomas GeoSciSoft  - Perth, Australia From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Young Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:44 PM To: mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com Subject: [MI-L] Open Source Donation   Hi List   I thought it was interesting to read that last week, at the very time Ian Thomas and a few other list members discussed Open Source on the MapInfo List, Sean O'Sullivan who was one of the original founders of MapInfo, donated $2 million for Open Software development to RPI in Troy.     Bob Young MapsByDesign   _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l

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