... And please do check out the comments. So far I seem to be the most adamently against Autodesk taking the MapServer name ... and I think I give some good reasons.
To restate what I said in my poll comment, I have already seen a few potential clients confused over the MapServer / Autodesk issue that could easily work to Autodesk's favour ... and I don't actually spend much time building mapserver websites, I'm sure the hard core developers have seen more of this than me. I also don't appreciate the misleading messages I've seen in the media regarding Autodesk open sourcing MapServer as if it were their's to open source. My less open source aware friends have been giving Autodesk a lot of undeserved credit because of this lately. This may not be directly Autodesk's fault (unless they have let the media go uncorrected with their misleading articles), but I can add to this that a coworker attended the recent Autodesk conference in Orlando where the big announcement was made and he came back with some very different ideas on what the origins of MapServer actually was. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Autodesk, I spend most of my working hours using Autodesk products, and without these products I'm not sure what I would have been doing in the last 5 years. But they need to be kept under control. Want another example on a different topic? ... At that same conference, my coworker was shocked to find that sensitive data from one of our clients was being used as lesson material in a short-course, without our permission, without even removing his name or our company's logo from the map. This was data sent in confidence to Autodesk to help us overcome an issue with using the software. The sad thing is that the solution they demonstrated in the course never was sent to us to fix our problem. Hopefully no one else recognized the data, it was for a very important client to us whom we do not want to loose. Don't let the Gorilla step on us ... It's welcome in the zoo, but not in the same cage. Happy Holidays, Ken Lord Vancouver BC On 12/21/05, Tyler Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Gary's request, I've posted another poll to the MapServer website to help > capture how the community feels about the naming of Autodesk's web mapping > product. > > Please take the time to login and answer this poll: > http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/community/polls/autodesk_name/ > > Tyler >
