Andre, apologies on the disclaimer, no harm done but you might want
to find out where that came from (probably your company email?)
Paul
On 6-Dec-05, at 5:44 PM, Andre Karp wrote:
Thanks for the replies and further contributions, here some
thoughts and
remarks:
Steve Lime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is no intention to merge codebases, not that it is even
possible.
There are possiblities to share ideas > and even pieces of code
though. I
personally plan to continue to focus exclusively on MapServer for
the >
freseable future.
This is great, maybe I was too stupid, but the thought of a merge
of code
and, subsequently the disappearing of the original Mapserver really
worried
me, and it still does worry me.
Daniel Morissette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't think anyone suggested that you or anyone should switch,
but it
would be wise to give it a try before assuming that it's no good.
Maybe its my genetic german pessimism, sorry for that. I cannot,
like e.g.
Paul Ramsey, evaluate the code contributed by Autodesk, since I do
not have
any knowledge of that. But I do have some years of professional
experience
working with GIS software, and from that point of view there is
nothing to
make me think: "Oh great, the superior Autodesk code is made
available to
the open source community.." Since the product "MapGuide" was not
competetive, well, the code cannot be a great gift to the
community, can it?
However, I did not intend to refuse any kind of cooperation, but ,
as I
already said, I got the impression of mapserver being usurped by
Autodesk.
This impresssion was also driven by media reporting things like
"Autodesk
provides web mapping software to the open source community" .
(german press
release from Autodesk:
http://www.autodesk.de/adsk/servlet/item?
siteID=403786&id=6189327&linkID=4986961)
Thanks you so much, Autodesk, but
WHO is contributing WHAT to WHOM? It's just the other way round,
isn't it?
Paul Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
some comments inline for those that care to read a rebuttal. In
general, most of the issues that you raise have been discussed
extensively on both the mapserver-users and mapserver foundation
discuss lists, and on IRC. You will find folks coming down on both
sides, but I think the general sentiment expressed in both these
emails is based on some mis-understandings of the original
announcement
I tried to work through the discussion on the mapserver list (which
in my
opinion is the place where this topic should be discussed) and
probably I
missed some things (e.g. the re-re-naming announcement, it was soooo
small!).
I would really suggest that you try it out before making the
assumption that it is like any other software experience you have
had. You may find that you are surprised. Or not ;)
Well, maybe I should try it indeed, but to refer to ones experience is
something quite natural, isn't it? And, to mention this, especially
if this
experience derives from working with some of the widespread
commercial GIS
software (including Autodesk MapGuide), which is not really a funny
thing.
It is interesting to be discussing open source software with the
following disclaimer in your email ... that's a pretty closed license
on your comments. Wow ... am I even allowed to quote them or respond
to them?
Paul, this disclaimer was not part of my original posting, don't
know how it
got there, so no need to be sarcastic
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