That would be the 'Con' part of my original response to this thread ... In the Simpsons theme ... 'I for one wecome our new Autodesk Overlords'
Ken On 11/28/05, John Craddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Viewing all this through the looking glass, it seems to me that we have just > witnessed the largest reverse takeover of a community brand name by a > commercial organisation in corporate IT history see the release containing: - > > "Autodesk plans to offer a commercial version of the product called Autodesk > MapServer Enterprise in 2006, as well as an authoring environment which > handles geospatial data collection and preparation of the data for > distribution via the Internet." > > Takeover cost? Nix > Brilliant! > > Next move: Leverage the logo - keep the Platypus out of it! > > Regards > John C > Australia > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tyler Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 29 November 2005 09:09 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter > > > > > > > We seem to have been Slashdotted on this now as well: > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/28/1940207 > > > > I submitted a more community focused one to slashdot, guess I > > was too slow :) > > >
