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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GIS software/hardware donations for 3rd World |
| Date: |
01/21/2005 02:30:02 PM |
| From: |
Ivan Lucena |
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HI There,
Who am I to disagree, actually in this cold afternoon we can find truth
in all the different opinions about that issue, and have to say that I
deeply enjoy Mrs. Anthony Quartararo opinion every time he writes for
gislist, but let me complement that one:
Anthony Quartararo wrote:
>Lastly, I disagree with anything related to opensource GIS for *any*
>developing communities, this will leave them nowhere, and further
>discouraged after they understand what they have gotten themselves into, and
>it provides no structure for development of local intellectual property
>[because the nature of opensource is that there is no organization, just
>like linux]
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Years ago I had the pleasure to work in a freeware GIS development
project in the so called third work or developing country. That big
third world country had the luxury to put together some well educated
people, some of then graduated in EU, UE or Japan to develop this GIS
software. Do they manage to get something better than commercial
software? I don't think so, but they trained a bunch of non-paying user.
Some of those users really can't afford to pay and some just save the
money to buy a commercial GIS by the time that they could be able to
extract more from it. So there are schools, NGO's and other third world
country benefiting from that imperfect experience. But I would like to
mention that the user and the developer have been learned a lot in that
process and that has benefit to the whole international GIS community.
Lastly, I would say "Let's the children play" [Carlos Santana]. They are
"developing" or what?
My best regards
Lucena
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