Hi Jody,
Thank you for your mail. I agree with your inputs and observations.
We need to enjoy the humour that all these open washing vendors are providing
freely to everyone! I am enjoying the lot of humour coming from some GIS
vendors adverts in recent years . In future, we shouldn’t be
Just a note we can also use this opening marketing departments provide to
have a good conversation about what open source communities and foundations
offer beyond what even the best open washing can dress up as. We can also
include the open source companies on our service providers list as examples
Thank you for sharing this information .
If there are more examples of GIS vendors , please share so the wider GIS user
community can learn from this.
It is important that consumers are not tricked by any clever marketing
strategies by any vendors and consumer rights are fully protected.
Be
