Markus wrote: " I have to say that I am a bit surprised that
I got the impression (from the remarks by Paul and others) that the same
is not possible in Northern America!?"
I'm no expert, but I think most people involved in FOSS development in America
would agree that the political climate for
Gilberto and all,
I would like to give some comments on this from the perspective of a GIS
company with an Open Source business model, I hope you will find them of
interest.
lat/lon was founded in the year 2000 as a private company (in Germany)
and had from its beginning an open source busin
Gilberto wrote: "...Individual-led software (a small team of 1-3 people) have
less quality and more mortality than the above."
I think OpenJUMP might be an example of the opposite case. In this situation
the less-than-ideal management of a FOSS GIS program by a private company led
to a fork. The
Frank Wammerdam wrote: "Perhaps due to the relentless propaganda of the
"anti government right" in North America, I have some concerns about
governments throwing large amounts of money into FOSS development
without clear thinking about how to make that money work efficiently.
It is easy to imagine
Paul wrote: "The trouble with the geospatial marketplace is that it is
relatively small, so the small proportion an open source company can
monetize is smaller still."
I wonder how this will change as the ability to obtain spatial
information improves and becomes more affordable?
A few decades a
Gilberto Camara wrote:
For the FOSS4G effort to be fruitful and sustainable,
we need a very informed and candid assessment of our
business model. My personal view, based on 25 years of experience,
is that government intervention is essential for the open source
model to survive beyond a handful o
Greetings,
I posted my brief summary of the recently held VGI workshop on the
geowanking list, and am reposting it here as well. I hope you find
this useful --
Workshop on Volunteered Geographic Information
Dec 13-14, 2007
Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara, CA
Approximately 30 participants. The partici
Xen is one of those things where the market is SO DAMN HUGE that even
the very SMALL proportion of money that an open source company can
wring from the marketplace is actually non-trivial in an absolute
sense. If Red Hat is only monetizing 0.01% of the Linux marketplace,
that's still fine,
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:26:51AM -0500, Lucena, Ivan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am *not* going to disagree with Andrea, Gilberto, Paul, Howard or
> anybody else. I just want to point out a interesting open source
> business model that is making a big impact this days. I am talking about
> Xen [ht
Hi all,
I am *not* going to disagree with Andrea, Gilberto, Paul, Howard or
anybody else. I just want to point out a interesting open source
business model that is making a big impact this days. I am talking about
Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen].
I keep reading news and more news abou
Dear OSGEO Discussion List members:
Paul Ramsey´s remarks are right on target.
First, GIS is a large arena and there are
different motivations for developers, that
prevent them from joining a single project such as uDIG.
Second, it is very difficult for a private
company to develop a world-clas
Markus Lupp said:
>Paul Ramsey schrieb:
>>> Also, wasn't there a FOSS4G presentation about
>>> consulting as a way to further FOSS GIS development
>>> and make a living at it as well?
>>
>> Bit of a myth, as far as I can tell. This open source technology
>> wedge is still so small that the busin
Le Thursday 03 January 2008 02:27:56 Dr. Markus Lupp, vous avez écrit :
> Paul Ramsey schrieb:
> >> Also, wasn't there a FOSS4G presentation about
> >> consulting as a way to further FOSS GIS development
> >> and make a living at it as well?
> >
> > Bit of a myth, as far as I can tell. This open s
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