[OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Paolo Cavallini
http://www.linkedin.com/e/vaq/7776133/55322/7269457/view_disc/ I would appreciate if somebody from OSGeo could jump in the discussion - it may get rather pointless, but leaving such FUD around without a reply will not be good IMHO. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Chris Puttick
Happy to oblige - but I'm not a member of whatever group the FUD message is posted in... Chris - Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vaq/7776133/55322/7269457/view_disc/ I would appreciate if somebody from OSGeo could jump in the discussion - it may

[OSGeo-Discuss] Request for a letter of support for Australian Open Technology Foundation

2009-10-10 Thread Cameron Shorter
Tyler, Australia is looking for support to set up an Open Technology Foundation for Australian Government: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/10/australian-government-initiative-to-set.html I wonder whether you would mind writing a letter of support on behalf of the OSGeo Foundation.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Thanks for attending us to this thread Paolo. FUD is the word for sure. More fud from the same guy on the benchmark exercise: http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/09/geospatial-performance-benchmarks.html Best regards, Bart Paolo Cavallini wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Guillaume Sueur
Le samedi 10 octobre 2009 à 13:11 +0200, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto: Thanks for attending us to this thread Paolo. FUD is the word for sure. More fud from the same guy on the benchmark exercise:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
It's a rainy day here and why not read some more of his blog I thought, until I encountered: http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengeo-team-is-faster-and-better-than.html Best regards, Bart Paolo Cavallini wrote: Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto: Thanks for attending us to this

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: It's a rainy day here and why not read some more of his blog I thought, until I encountered: http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengeo-team-is-faster-and-better-than.html It seems to be a voice on behalf of ERDAS and as such it surprises me that the ERDAS

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] buildbot.osgeo.org will be down for upgrade

2009-10-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Frank Warmerdam wrote: Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, I'm going to put the Buildbot down (in minutes) and upgrade [1] to the latest software. It's also a good time to apply any fixes to configuration, so please let me know if anything needs to be fixed. [1]

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto: It's a rainy day here and why not read some more of his blog I thought, until I encountered: http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/opengeo-team-is-faster-and-better-than.html I thought these supposedly large companies had a better recruitment methods,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Guillaume Sueur
another one here : http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/price-free-of-open-source-software-has.html how can we have ignore that guy for so long , Regards, Guillaume Le samedi 10 octobre 2009 à 16:03 +0200, Paolo Cavallini a écrit : Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto: It's a rainy day

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Paul Ramsey
Don't feed the trolls. P On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Guillaume Sueur no-re...@neogeo-online.net wrote: another one here : http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/price-free-of-open-source-software-has.html how can we have ignore that guy for so long , Regards, Guillaume Le samedi 10

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] buildbot.osgeo.org will be down for upgrade

2009-10-10 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Mateusz Loskot wrote: Folks, I'm going to put the Buildbot down (in minutes) and upgrade [1] to the latest software. The task has been completed. Buildbot should be online now. In case of problems related to this upgrade, please report as comment here:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Giovanni Manghi
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 16:43 +0200, Guillaume Sueur wrote: oups, sorry to have joined a conversation I was not invited in. Hi, you get it wrong, the expression don't feed the trolls is a common expression, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) cheers -- Giovanni --

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Bruce, Bob (CON)
Then there is The Price of FREE Open Source Software has really become Expensive!! at http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/price-free-of-open-source-software-ha s.html It is easy to make all kinds of statements when you aren't accountable for them and when they are not peer-reviewed. I wouldn't

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Micha Silver
Guillaume Sueur wrote: another one here : http://owston.blogspot.com/2009/05/price-free-of-open-source-software-has.html how can we have ignore that guy for so long , Hey, look on the bright side. In the above post he says he has many clients already using open source solutions. -- Micha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Mind Map - Open Source Spatial Projects

2009-10-10 Thread George Silva
Amazing. Congratulations! Can i suggest a project that has been around for some years? Check Terralib and TerraView. It's a brazilian project and it's quite mature. http://www.terralib.org/ Regards, George On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitch...@osgeo.org wrote:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Russo
At first glance, my initial reaction is he's merely misinformed. However, after reviewing his blog and comments elsewhere; it's not just sad - it's outright funny how indoctrinated he is. We use a lot of proprietary software because we have a specific community we need to interoperate with, but

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] discussion or FUD

2009-10-10 Thread René A. Enguehard
I find his views amusing, if misguided. In any case, a troll's opinion has about as much weight as the air under the bridge from which he crawled out of. No sense antagonizing him, let his ignorance speak for itself. As to whether ERDAS products, or even open source ones, are viable options: