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| Subject: | RE: GISList: Re: Re: GIS software for the masses |
| Date: |
06/10/2002 07:58:38 AM |
| From: |
Anthony Quartararo |
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How, may I ask does this tilt the balance anywhere ? Did we read the same
article ? I'm just waiting for Dimitri to weigh in on this as well.
I can only imagine the sheer volume of "vertical silos" that exist within
the national security establishment, all because of "open-source" yahoos
that promote the technology, then fail to deliver the "holy-grail" of
interoperability, transparency and longevity. The US Government, in all its
forms and fashions is ESRI's biggest customer by far, always has been,
without that customer base, it probably wouldn't exist. How "open" is that
suite of products? Nada, zilch, zip. Is it going to be usurped by some
"flavor of the month" attempt at "open source GIS". Not in our collective
lifetimes.
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Harsh Prakash [mailto:hvp@regiononepdc.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:23 PM
To: gislist@geocomm.com
Subject: GISList: Re: Re: GIS software for the masses
FYI,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html
"Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon -
Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software"
Re: GIS software for the masses
...interesting discussion earlier, this just tilts the balance in favor of
open-source (gis+non-gis)
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